[CaptainKidd]

The shortlist for The Booker Prize, the U.K.'s top prize for fiction, has been announced. Two former winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, both made the cut—a week before Atwood's book, 'The Testaments', has even been published.

The 2019 Booker Prize Shortlist:

Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments

Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport

Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other

Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities

Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte

Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

The winner will be named on 14 October 2019.

[CaptainKidd]

For the first time, The Booker Prize has co-winners. Margaret Atwood, author of The Testaments, and Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other, are the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize which was announced on 14 October 2019.