English exam board doubles choice of books by writers of colour

Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other amongst new books on OCR’s English literature curriculumPupils taking GCSE and A-level English literature will be able to study more books by writers of colour, after one of the UK’s leading examination boards announced a raft of new texts aimed at increasing diversity in the curriculum.The new works, which will include the 2019 Booker prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, will mean that 28% of texts available fo