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 was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners. Judging panel Peter Florence (chair) Liz Calder Xiaolu Guo Afua Hirsch Joanna MacGregor
Nominees
Shortlist Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Margaret Atwood The Testaments Novel Canada Vintage, Chatto & Windus Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Novel UK Hamish Hamilton Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport Novel USA/UK Galley Beggar Press Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities Novel Nigeria Little Brown Salman Rushdie Quichotte Novel UK/India Jonathan Cape Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel UK/Turkey Viking
Longlist Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Margaret Atwood The Testaments Novel Canada Vintage, Chatto & Windus Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier Novel Ireland Canongate Books Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer Novel UK/Nigeria Atlantic Books Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport Novel USA/UK Galley Beggar Press Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Novel UK Hamish Hamilton John Lanchester The Wall Novel UK Faber & Faber Deborah Levy The Man Who Saw Everything Novel UK Hamish Hamilton Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive Novel Mexico/Italy Fourth Estate Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities Novel Nigeria Little Brown Max Porter Lanny Novel UK Faber & Faber Salman Rushdie Quichotte Novel UK/India Jonathan Cape Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel UK/Turkey Viking Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein Novel UK Jonathan Cape
See also List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction
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