The author of the Booker Prize Winner 2019 book’s “Girl, Woman, Other” is:

The answer is D, Bernardine Evaristo. The option is misspelt as "Bemadine", but the author is Bernardine Evaristo. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other (2019) won the Booker Prize jointly that year with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments. Evaristo became the first Black woman to win the Booker.

Why the others are wrong:

• A) Margaret Atwood is a co-winner in 2019, but for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, not for this book.
• B) Elif Shafak was shortlisted in 2019 for 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. She did not win.
• C) Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for Midnight's Children, and the Booker of Bookers in 1993. He has no connection to this 2019 book.

The core concept is the Booker Prize, awarded to the best novel in English published in the UK or Ireland. Questions often test recent winners, which is useful for the current affairs and Art and Culture sections of Prelims.

Trap: Aspirants see that Atwood also won in 2019 and pick her, forgetting the prize was shared and each winner had a different book.