Atwood tipped by UK bookmakers to win fiction’s Booker Prize

 Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is bookmakers’ favourite to win coveted fiction trophy for a second time on Monday, October 14, for “ Testaments,” her follow-up to dystopian saga “ Handmaid’s Tale.”

Winner to be anunced at London’s medieval Guildhall

Atwood, who won in 2000 for “ Blind Assassin” is one of six finalists for 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize, whose winner will be anunced during a dinner ceremony at London’s medieval Guildhall. Also in running, according to British bookies, are British-Turkish author Elif Shafak for her Istanbul-set story “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World” and U.S.-British writer Lucy Ellmann for her 1,000-p stream-of-consciousness vel “Ducks, Newburyport.”

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Or contenders

Or contenders include India-born British writer Salman Rushdie, Booker winner in 1981 for “Midnight’s Children” for “Quichotte,” a modern-day retelling of “Don Quixote” and Britain’s Bernardine Evaristo for kaleidoscopic “Girl, Woman, Or.” Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma has also been tipped for “An Orchestra of Mirities,” a saga of love and exile.

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Founded in 1969, prize is open to English-langu authors from around world.

prize, which often delivers a big boost in sales and profile to winner, was sponsored for 18 years by investment firm Man Group and kwn as Man Booker Prize. This year it reverted to its original name, Booker Prize, under a new sponsor: Crankstart Foundation founded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife, writer Harriet Heyman.

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