By Japhet Davidson, with agency reports
THE judges of this year’s Booker prize have “explicitly flouted” the rules of the august literary award to choose the first joint winners in almost 30 years: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo. With this Atwood and Evaristo become the first authors to jointly win the Booker Prize since 1992.
Atwood’s The Testaments, the Canadian writer’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, was recognised alongside Londoner Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other.
The pair will split the literary award’s £50,000 prize money equally.
The Booker rules say the prize must not be divided, but the judges insisted they “couldn’t separate” the two works.
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Atwood, 79, is the oldest ever Booker winner, while Evaristo is the first black…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper