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Detailed explanation-1: -Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie. Atwood’s The Testaments, the Canadian writer’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, was recognised alongside Londoner Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Booker winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood on breaking the rules.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 2019 Booker Prize was jointly won by Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other). The Booker Prize is a literary award awarded every year for the best novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Bernardine Evaristo: She is a British Author.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.