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She was the first woman of African heritage to be awarded the prize, which was founded in 1969 and has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers.When she won, Evaristo was 60 and had been a writer for decades. She says the recognition “came at the right time for me.”

“Maybe I wouldn’t have handled it so well if I was younger,” she told The Associated Press at her London home. “It changed my career –- in terms of book sales, foreign rights, translation, the way in which I was viewed as a writer. Various other opportunities came my way. And I felt that I had the foundations to handle that.”Evaristo’s house on a quiet suburban street is bright and comfortable, with wooden floors, vibrant textiles and a large wooden writing desk by the front window. Large photos of her Nigerian paternal grandparents hang on one wall. Her work often draws on her roots as the London-born child of a Nigerian father and white British mother.Like much of Evaristo’s work, “Girl, Woman, Other” eludes classification. She calls it “fusion fiction” for its melding of poetry and prose into a novel that relishes the texture and rhythm of language.

“I kind of dispense with the rules of grammar,” she said. “I think I have 12 full stops in the novel.”If that sounds dauntingly experimental, readers didn’t think so. “Girl, Woman, Other” has sold more than 1 million copies and was chosen as one of Barack Obama’s books of the year.

Evaristo traces her love of poetry to the church services of her Catholic childhood, where she soaked up the rhythms of the Bible and sermons, “without realizing I was absorbing poetry.”

When she started writing novels, the love of poetry remained, along with a desire to tell stories of the African diaspora. One of her first major successes, “The Emperor’s Babe,” is a verse novel set in Roman Britain.Las exhibiciones de auroras conocidas como las luces del norte y del sur son comúnmente visibles cerca de los polos, donde las partículas cargadas del sol interactúan con la atmósfera de la Tierra.

Los observadores del cielo están viendo las luces más al interior de Estados Unidos y Europa porque el Sol está pasando por un cambio importante. Cada 11 años, sus polos cambian de lugar, causando giros y enredos magnéticos en el camino.Las tormentas severas son capaces de alterar las comunicaciones de radio y GPS.

Se prevé que el periodo activo del Sol dure al menos hasta finales de este año, aunque faltan meses para saber cuándo alcanzará su pico de actividad solar, según la NASA y la NOAA.Las tormentas solares pueden traer más que luces coloridas a la Tierra.