'Girl, Woman, Other' and 'Blonde Roots' were written by:

"Girl, Woman, Other" (2019) and "Blonde Roots" (2008) are novels by the British writer Bernardine Evaristo.

About "Girl, Woman, Other":

• It follows the lives of 12 characters, mostly Black British women, of different ages, backgrounds, classes and sexual identities, whose stories are linked together.
• It is written in an experimental style, close to free verse, with few full stops and capital letters.
• It explores race, gender, identity, family, friendship and life in modern Britain.

It won the Booker Prize in 2019, jointly with Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments". Evaristo became the first Black woman (and the first Black British writer) to win the Booker Prize.

About "Blonde Roots":

It is a satirical novel that reverses the history of the transatlantic slave trade: in the novel, Africans enslave white Europeans.

About Bernardine Evaristo:

• She was born in 1959 in London, to an English mother and a Nigerian father.
• She is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University London.
• Her other works include "The Emperor's Babe" (a verse novel set in Roman London), "Mr Loverman" and the non-fiction book "Manifesto: On Never Giving Up" (2021).
• In 2022, she became the President of the Royal Society of Literature, the first woman of colour in that role.

Other important Black women writers:

• Zadie Smith (UK): "White Teeth" (2000), "On Beauty".
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): "Half of a Yellow Sun", "Americanah" and the essay "We Should All Be Feminists".
• Toni Morrison (USA): "Beloved"; Nobel Prize in Literature (1993).
• Maya Angelou (USA): "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Zadie Smith wrote "White Teeth".
• ✗Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote "Americanah" and "Half of a Yellow Sun".
• ✗Toni Morrison wrote "Beloved".