Chairman Peter Florence said the five judges simply couldn't choose between dystopian thriller 'The Testaments' and the kaleidoscope of black women's stories 'Girl, Woman, Other.'
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.
Prize organizers didn't see it that way. Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, said prize trustees repeatedly told the judges they couldn't have two winners, but they "essentially staged a sit-in in the judging room" as deliberations dragged on for five hours. Florence, founder of the Hay literary festival, said Atwood's novel "does massively more" than just continue the story started in"It's beautiful in its depth and exploration of the world of Gilead," he said. It might have looked like science fiction back in the day. Now it looks more politically urgent than ever before."
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