12 Facts About Diana Evans

Diana Omo Evans FRSL was born on 1972 and is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London.

Diana Evans was honoured as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.

Diana Evans is the daughter of a Nigerian mother and an English father.

Diana Evans was born and grew up in Neasden, north-west London, with her parents and five sisters, one of whom was her twin.

Diana Evans spent part of her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria.

Diana Evans completed a media studies degree at the University of Sussex.

Diana Evans completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

Diana Evans contributed human-interest features and art criticism to a range of magazines, journals and newspapers in the UK; published interviews with celebrities; worked as an editor for Pride Magazine and the literary journal Calabash.

Diana Evans's third novel, Ordinary People, is a portrait of family life for two black couples in their 30s in South London in a year bookended by the election of Barack Obama and the death of Michael Jackson.

Also a journalist, Diana Evans has contributed essays and literary criticism to Marie Claire, The Independent, The Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, Time, The New York Review of Books and Harper's Bazaar.

Diana Evans is an associate lecturer of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Diana Evans is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.