{"id":83958,"date":"2019-10-16T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=83958"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:57:02","slug":"the-booker-prize-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/the-booker-prize-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Booker Prize 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Who is the winner of 2019 Booker Prize?<br> (a) Margaret Atwood<br> (b) Bernardine Evaristo<br> (c) Lucy Ellmann<br> (d) Both (a) &amp; (b)<br> Answer: (d)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been declared the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction after judges defied the single winner norm by declaring a tie.<\/li><li>Being joint winners, the pair will split the literary award&#8217;s \u00a350,000 prize money equally.<\/li><li>Margaret Atwood received the award for her novel\u2013\u2018The Testament\u2019 whereas  Bernardine Evaristo has been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel \u2018Girl, Woman, Other\u2019.<\/li><li>The Testaments is a follow up to Atwood\u2019s 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid\u2019s Tale.<\/li><li>Total of six books were shortlisted for the award alongwith Salman Rushdie&#8217;s tragicomic &#8216;Quichotte&#8217;.<\/li><li>Having won the Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman and the first black British writer to achieve the feat. <\/li><li>Also, 79-year-old Canadian author Margaret Atwood became the oldest to win Booker Prize.<\/li><li> Margaret Atwood is the second women author to win the Booker Award twice and fourth overall writer.She had her first in 2000 for \u2018The Blind Assassin\u2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Booker Prize:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Booker Prize awards any novel originally written in English and published in the UK and Ireland in the year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of their author.<\/li><li>The prize was first awarded in 1969. In 2018 Northern Irish writer Anna Burns won the Booker Prize for \u2018Milkman\u2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/fiction\">https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/fiction<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-50014906\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-50014906<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/margaret-atwood-and-bernardine-evaristo-joint-winners-of-booker-prize\/article29685638.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/margaret-atwood-and-bernardine-evaristo-joint-winners-of-booker-prize\/article29685638.ece<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is the winner of 2019 Booker Prize? (a) Margaret Atwood (b) Bernardine Evaristo (c) Lucy Ellmann (d) Both (a) &amp; (b) Answer: (d) Related facts: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been declared the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction after judges defied the single winner norm by declaring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":83959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}