Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and Nigerian-British author Bernardine Evaristo have split the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name just one winner for the prestigious literature award.
Chairman Peter Florence said the five judges simply couldn't choose between Atwood's dystopian thriller The Testaments and Evaristo's kaleidoscope of black women's stories Girl, Woman, Other.
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