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#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.

#ReadMoreWomen

Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The Blind Assassin after winning the Booker in 2000.
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.
#OnThisDay #readmorewomen

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