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Evaristos united: namesakes Bernardine and Conceição meet at book festival

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Evaristos united: namesakes Bernardine and Conceição meet at book festival



Celebrated authors discuss the somewhat connected stories of their shared surname at literary event in RioBorn more than 5,500 miles apart, the Booker prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, 65, and Brazil’s most celebrated living Black author, Conceição Evaristo, 77, share the same surname, though they are – as far as is known – unrelated.But their surnames’ stories are somewhat connected, and shed light on aspects of the history of Brazil, the country that received the largest number of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/14/evaristos-united-namesakes-bernardine-conceicao-meet-book-festival-rio

Author : Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

Publish date : 2024-11-14 14:27:17

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