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Bernardine Evaristo jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood for their respective novels Girl, Woman, Other and The Testaments. The award was announced on October 15, 2019, and was the first time that the prize had been awarded to two authors in the same year. Evaristo and Atwood were both praised for their novels, which were seen as tackling important issues of race, gender, and class.