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Picking a winner is an impossible task, says Booker judge Afua Hirsch. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo both deserved to win
Was deciding on a winner for the Booker prize, a friend asked at the awards ceremony, a bit like giving birth? She then relayed the story of how, after carefully nurturing her pregnancy for months, the doctors became increasingly desperate to get her baby out before something went wrong. And there was the happiest of endings, when her child was born safely, in good health.
Yes, I said, it was a lot like that. Only at that point, we discovered it was twins. Continue reading...