LONDON — Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “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 judges defied those rules, saying they could not agree on a winner between the two books, which were on a shortlist of six. “Neither of us expected to win this,” Atwood said in her acceptance speech in a televised ceremony. In Britain, it was an immediate hit, selling just over 100,000 hardback copies in its first week of release.

Source: National Post October 14, 2019 21:56 UTC