Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up is a 2022 memoir by Bernardine Evaristo.

Evaristo’s first non-fiction book, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}, is a memoir about growing up in a working-class, mixed-race family in 1960s Britain to founding Britain's first Black women's theatre company in the 1980s and her historic 2019 Booker Prize win. She looks at her creativity through the prism of her heritage and life.

The heart of the book is about tenacity. Evaristo tackles topics such as race, class, feminism, sexuality and aging. Readers are encouraged to be unstoppable in the face of marginalization through self-discipline, maintaining a positive mental attitude and viewing setbacks as stepping stones.

It is published by Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books UK (7th October 2021) & Grove Press (January 2022). And Brazil (Companhia das Letras), France (Globe), Germany (Tropen), Greece (Dardanos), Netherlands (De Geus), Spain (Alianza) & other countries/languages.