Rule-breaking Booker judges honor Atwood, Evaristo with rare double prize
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 14, 2019 / 5:10 PM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
Rule-breaking Booker judges honor Atwood, Evaristo with rare double prize
Marie-Louise Gumuchian
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LONDON (Reuters) - Margaret Atwoods The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristos Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize on Monday in a surprise double award in which the literary prize recognized its oldest and first black woman winners.
The authors will split the 50,000 pounds ($62,800) annual prize, the judging panel said. The award honors the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Atwood, 79, previously won the prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, and The Testaments, published last month, is the sequel to the Canadian authors best-selling 1985 novel, The Handmaids Tale.
Evaristo, the first black woman to win the prize, tells the stories of 12 characters, mainly female and black aged 19 to 93, living in Britain in Girl, Woman, Other.
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