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Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood for the 2019 Booker Award

[Edited By: Gaurav]

Wednesday, 24th July , 2019 02:28 pm

The Booker Award winners Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood are once again candidates for the coveted Fiction Trophy.

Rushdie, winner in 1981 of "Midnight's Children", composes the list of 13 titles of his latest novel, "Quixote". Atwood won in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" and is nominated for "The Testaments". to "The Tale of the Maid".

Among the eight women and five men on the list announced Wednesday are Britain's Max Porter for "Lanny"; Oyinkan Braithwaite, Nigerian and British writer, for "My sister, the serial killer"; The Anglo-Turkish author Elif Shafak for "10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world"; and Lucy Ellmann, the only American finalist in "Ducks, Newburyport".

Founded in 1969, the 50,000-pound ($ 67,000) prize is open to English-language writers from around the world.

The six finalists will be announced on September 3rd. The winner will be unveiled on October 14th.