Explained: What is the Booker prize and why it has been shared | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: What is the Booker prize and why it has been shared | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 15, 2019 2:41:30 pm

Explained: What is the Booker prize and why it has been shared

2019 Booker prize winners: The chair of judges, Peter Florence quipped: “We tried voting, that didn’t work...There’s a metaphor for our times”.

2019 Booker prize winners Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo have jointly won this year’s Booker prize. Although the rules do not allow for the award to be either split or withheld, the jury was unanimous after several rounds that this year’s award must be shared.