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Hace 20 horas · Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second ...
Hace 20 horas · Butler attended Bennington College before transferring to Yale University, where they studied philosophy and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984. Their studies fell primarily under the traditions of German Idealism and phenomenology , [16] and they spent one academic year at Heidelberg University as a Fulbright Scholar in 1979. [17]
Hace 20 horas · Early life and education. Camilla Rosemary Shand was born on 17 July 1947 at King's College Hospital, London. Her family split their time between their country house—18th-century The Laines in Plumpton, East Sussex —and their London house in South Kensington. Her parents were British Army officer-turned-businessman Major Bruce Shand and his wife The Hon. Rosalind Cubitt, daughter of Roland ...
Hace 20 horas · 8 January: The first soup kitchens are opened in London. [1] 13 January: The Royal Institution is granted a royal charter. [2] 22 March: The Company of Surgeons is granted a royal charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons in London. [2] 15 May: George III survives 2 assassination attempts in London.
