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Detailed explanation-1: -Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other, jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, making her the first woman with Black heritage to win the Booker.

Detailed explanation-2: -Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14 October 2019. The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 23 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 3 September. The Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other.

Detailed explanation-4: -Arundhati Roy became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize. ‘God of Small Things’ book won her a booker prize in 1997. Booker prize is awarded each year for the best novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

Detailed explanation-5: -With the aid of her translator Marilyn Booth, Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani writer to be translated into English, also became the first Arab writer to win the prize.