By Jason Jefferies, Quail Ridge Books
This week, the Booker Prize broke with their clearly defined rules to award a dual prize to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for her novel Girl, Woman, Other.
This is Margaret Atwood's second Booker Prize (she won the prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin. This is the third time in the Prize's history that their have been dual winners (Nadine Gordimer and Stanley Middleton split the prize in 1974, and Michael
Ondaatje and Barry Unsworth split the prize in 1992), but the first time their has been a split-decision since the rule was instituted in 1993 that "the prize may not be divided or withheld".
Bernardine Evaristo is the first black woman to win the prize. Margaret Atwood, at 79 years old, is the oldest winner in the prize's history.
Margaret Atwood will be at North Carolina State University on November 15th (this appearance is sold out).
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