Amid a certain amount of consternation, Bernardine Evaristo shared this year’s Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood. It’s the third time in its history that two authors have shared this most prestigious award so the decision must, once again, have been fairly split down the middle. Margaret Atwood is almost venerated in her position as author of The Handmaid’s Tale though she won the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin. But who on earth is Bernardine Evaristo, and how …
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