‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win

News presenter alluded to her joint victory with Margaret Atwood but failed to give the name of Girl, Woman, Other’s author

The BBC has apologised after one of its presenters referred to Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo as “another author” while discussing her joint victory with Margaret Atwood.

Evaristo won in October for her polyphonic novel Girl, Woman, Other, which is told mostly from the perspectives of 12 black women. The honour was shared with Atwood, who won for The Testaments, in a controversial decision that some said diminished Evaristo’s achievement in being the first black woman to take the award.

Pls RT: The @BBC described me yesterday as 'another author' apropos @TheBookerPrizes 2019. How quickly & casually they have removed my name from history - the first black woman to win it. This is what we've always been up against, folks. https://t.co/LxxDBJrUYh

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