#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).
She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo congratulate each other on jointly winning the prize in 2019. Atwood is a white woman with white hair, and Evaristo is a Black woman with natural hair.
Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The Blind Assassin after winning the Booker in 2000.
