Breaking the Booker Prize rules, the judges named both Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo winners of the 2019 Booker Prize on Monday (Oct 14) night in London. Atwood won for “The Testaments,” her long-awaited sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Evaristo won for “Girl, Woman, Other.”
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have become the first authors to jointly win the Booker Prize for Fiction. Atwood's The Testaments and Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other earned each author an equal share of the £50,000 prize.
Atwood, 79, is the oldest ever Booker winner, while Evaristo is the first black woman to win.
The other nominees were Lucy Ellmann, Chigozie Obioma, Sir Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak.
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