Bernardine Evaristo fears publishers may lose interest in black authors | Bernardine Evaristo | The Guardian

She told an audience at the Hay festival: "This is a really good time for black writers to be published. Whether that will be the case in five or 10 years, we'll have to see. What I'm interested in is for our literature to be embedded in the culture rather than being part of a trend or fashion."

Evaristo considered it crucial that change should happen at the top: "You need to have [diversity among] the people making decisions in the publishing houses, and a wider range of writers, and writers of underrepresented communities, being published. That's certainly happening at the moment and that's a really positive thing."