{UAH} Backlash after Booker awards prize to two authors

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FIRST BLACK WOMAN WINS BOOKER PRIZE.

This year's Booker Prize was shared by Margaret Atwood and the black British writer Bernardine Evaristo.and the £50,000 award will be split between Atwood's follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, and Evaristo's polyphonic novel Girl, Woman, Other.
Evaristo becomes the first black woman, and the first black British writer, to win the Booker since it was launched in 1969. She said after the announcement: "I hope that honour doesn't last too long. I hope other people come forward now",.
Told in the voices of 12 different characters, mostly black women, Evaristo has said that the novel, her eighth, stems from the fact that "we black British women know that if we don't write ourselves into literature, no one else will".

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Backlash after Booker awards prize to two authors

Decision to make first black female winner, Bernardine Evaristo, share £50,000 prize with Margaret Atwood causes controversy

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