Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo speaks at the Ake literary festival, in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, Nigeria October 26, 2019. Picture taken October 26, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
LAGOS (Reuters) - Author Bernardine Evaristo hopes her Booker Prize-winning novel will help to alter perceptions of black British people among African readers and Britons she sees as grappling with heightened racial tension.
In an interview with Reuters on Saturday at the Ake literary festival in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, she also said she was in talks over the rights for film and theatre adaptations of "Girl, Woman, Other".
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