Judges tear up the rule book, awarding the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction jointly to Canadian author Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other".

Two previous winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, are shortlisted for the Booker Prize for the best English-language fiction to be awarded in October.

South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize, sharing the £50,000 ($72,000, 63,500 euros) award with her translator -- who had only taught herself Korean three years before.