The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14 October 2019.
The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 23 July,
and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 3 September.
The
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...
was awarded jointly to
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...
for ''
The Testaments'' and
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo (born 28 May 1959) is an English author and academic. Her novel ''Girl, Woman, Other'' jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's ''The Testaments'', making her the first Black woman to win ...
for ''
Girl, Woman, Other''. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.
Judging panel
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Peter Florence
Peter Kenrick Florence Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 4 October 1964) is a British festival director, most notable for founding the Hay Festival with his father and mother, Norman Florence and Rhoda Lewis, funding the first festival with ...
(chair)
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Liz Calder
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Xiaolu Guo
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Afua Hirsch
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Joanna MacGregor
Nominees
Shortlist
Longlist
See also
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References
{{Man Booker Prize
Man Booker
Booker Prizes by year
2019 awards in the United Kingdom