Booker Prize Winners 2019

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Booker prize

The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.

Booker Prize 2019 Winners:

The literary world was taken by surprise tonight when the Booker Prize for 2019 was awarded to two books focusing on the experiences of women in society: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other. The two authors will share £50,000 in prize money.

First Booker Price:

Something to Answer For. Something to Answer For is a 1968 novel by the English writer P. H. Newby. Its chief claim to fame is that in 1969 it won the inaugural Booker Prize, which would go on to become one of the major literary awards in the English-speaking world.

Booker Prize 2019 Winner Details:

Category Winners Country Details
 

Books

Margaret Atwood’s Canada The Testaments
Bernardine Evaristo London Girl, Woman, Other

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