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
The 2019 Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood and Bernadine Evaristo congratulate one another as joint winners
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.
Winner The Booker Prize 2019
- By
- Margaret Atwood
- 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’.
Winner The Booker Prize 2019
- By
- Bernardine Evaristo
- 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
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
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’.
With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country.
The longlist
The 2019 judges
Announcing the 2019 Booker Prize longlist
Announcing the 2019 Booker Prize shortlist
Announcing the 2019 Booker Prize winners
2019 Booker Prize ceremony
