14-10-2019 22:59 via ctvnews.ca

Canadian author Margaret Atwood co-winner of Booker Prize

LONDON -- Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood is sharing the Booker Prize with British author Bernardine Evaristo, after the prize jury tossed the rulebook out the window by naming two winners. Atwood is the fourth author to have won the prize twice and Evaristo is the first black woman to claim the prize since it began in 1969. In accepting the award, Atwood said she was surprised because she would have considered herself "too elderly" to win, adding that she doesn't need the attention. "It
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