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This Famous Writer Only Started Making Money From Writing at 60 years old
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Bernardine Evaristo was born in 1959. She was the first black British person to win the Booker Prize in 2019 with her eighth book: Girl, Woman, Other. This prize has changed her life, and now in her 60s, she is finally living off only from her writing career. She has been writing for 40 years before receiving the recognition she thought she deserved.
Recently I watched this video on YouTube, Bernardine Evaristo On Writing | Vogue Visionaries | British Vogue & YouTube, and there she said something like that:
“I would say that my writing didn’t work financially until I won the Booker Prize in 2019. I wrote that book because I loved it, I was passionate about it, it was really the only thing I wanted to do.”
Before becoming a best-seller with Girl, Woman, Other, she had what she calls a portfolio career, and she did lots of different things to support herself. Many of them were important to lead her where she is today. She is going to publish her ninth book called Manifesto: On Never Giving Up to tell her story of pursuing her dreams of being a recognised best-seller…
