Margaret Atwood’s spellbinding sequel to The Handmaid's Tale was inspired by readers’ responses to the first book and ‘the world we’ve been living in’
The Booker Prize 2019
Like a corpse in a zombie-flick, the old problem of split winners came back to life and an almighty ruckus ensued when Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the prize.
The one thing the judges could decide on is that they couldn’t decide on a single winner. So, ignoring the prize stricture that only a single book could win, and ignoring too the reasons for the rule, they refused to budge and announced two winners.
Margaret Atwood with The Testaments, becoming only the fourth novelist to win the prize twice, and Bernardine Evaristo with Girl, Woman, Other, becoming the first black female novelist to win, were all graciousness and rose above the fuss.
The Testaments
Winner of The Booker Prize 2019
- Published by
- Chatto & Windus
Margaret Atwood’s spellbinding sequel to The Handmaid's Tale was inspired by readers’ responses to the first book and ‘the world we’ve been living in’
Girl, Woman, Other
Winner of The Booker Prize 2019
- Published by
- Hamish Hamilton
With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country
The shortlist
Lucy Ellmann’s scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for a world sleepwalking into environmental disaster
By Lucy Ellmann
With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country
In the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about the tension between destiny and determination
Salman Rushdie’s tragicomic tale is very much of our deranged time, but was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ classic Don Quixote
An intensely beautiful and haunting novel from Elif Shafak about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in between
By Elif Shafak
The longlist
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood (prize winner)
Night Boat to Tangier
by Kevin Barry
My Sister the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Ducks, Newburyport
by Lucy Ellmann
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo (prize winner)
The Wall
by John Lanchester
The Man Who Saw Everything
by Deborah Levy
Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
An Orchestra of Minorities
by Chigozie Obioma
Lanny
by Max Porter
Quichotte
by Salman Rushdie
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak
Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
The 2019 judges
Announcing the Booker Prize 2019 longlist
Announcing the Booker Prize 2019 shortlist
Announcing the Booker Prize 2019 winners
The Booker Prize 2019 ceremony
