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Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo will headline Marlborough LitFest in September.
The award-winning author has been announced as the festival’s annual Golding Speaker and will talk about her Booker-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) on Friday 25th September at Marlborough Town Hall.
Marlborough LitFest hosts an annual Golding Speaker to highlight the town’s long connection with the Nobel Laureate and Booker Prize-winner William Golding, best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies and awarded the Booker Prize in 1980 for Rites of Passage, the first novel in sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.
Marlborough LitFest‚Äôs Kay Newman said: “Our Golding Speakers are one of the highlights of the festival and we are thrilled Bernardine is coming this year. To have a recent Booker Prize-winner attending LitFest is a real feather in our cap.”
Returning for its 11th year, the festival will feature new writers as well as established names in fiction and non-fiction, children’s authors as well as workshops and poetry events.
First appearing at the festival in 2013, Evaristo is a professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and vice-chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She has written eight books encompassing poetry, verse fiction, short fiction, essays as well as radio and theatre drama. Evaristo was made an MBE in 2009 and awarded the Booker Prize jointly with Margaret Atwood in 2019.
Past Golding Speakers include Ben Okri, Rose Tremain, Will Self, Lionel Shriver, Louis de Bernieres, Fay Weldon and Howard Jacobson.