Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood the second female author to win twice after Hilary Mantel | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood the second female author to win twice after Hilary Mantel | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 15, 2019 11:35:40 am

Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood the second female author to win twice after Hilary Mantel

Margaret Atwood had won a Booker for Blind Assassin in 2000. Except for the Booker judges and few of her associates, no one could lay their hands on The Testament.

Margaret Atwood won the literary prize for The Testament.

Jury for Booker Prize 2019 flouted rules a declared a joint winner: Margaret Atwood for The Testament and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. As per the Booker rules, the prize cannot be divided but the judges “couldn’t separate” Atwood’s ‘The Testament’ and ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Evaristo. Peter Florence, the chair of the five-member judging panel, said: “It was our decision to flout the rules.” This is the third time that the award has been presented to two authors together. In 1974, Nadine Gordimer had won for The Conservationist along with Stanley Middleton for Holiday, and in 1992 by Michael Ondaatje had received the prestigious honour for The English Patient with Barry Unsworth for Sacred Hunger.