Margaret Atwood’s novel The Testaments, her long-awaited follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, shared the illustrious Booker Prize for Fiction at a ceremony in London last night (October 15). The award…
, shared the illustrious Booker Prize for Fiction at a ceremony in London last night .Girl, Woman, Otherwas published last month, 34 years after the release of. The popular TV adaptation of the original text starring Elisabeth Moss debuted on Hulu in 2017 and has run for three seasons, with a fourth on the horizon.The series has outstripped the original source material across its four seasons but that temporal leap means events in the second book will likely come into play further down the line.
The awarding of this year’s Booker to two authors breaks a convention established after the 1992 prize was split between Michael Ondaatje and Barry Unsworth. From 1993, the rules were changed so only one author could win, but this year’s jury, headed by Peter Florence, opted to ignore that regulation.
In winning, Atwood becomes the fourth author to have won the prize twice following her victory in 2000 withThe Handmaid’s Tale
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