<p class="title">Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is bookmakers' favourite to win the coveted fiction trophy for a second time Monday for "The Testaments," her follow-up to dystopian saga "The Handmaid's Tale."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Atwood, who won in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" is one of six finalists for the 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize, whose winner will be announced during a dinner ceremony at London's medieval Guildhall.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also in the 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-page stream-of-consciousness novel "Ducks, Newburyport."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other 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 the kaleidoscopic "Girl, Woman, Other."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma has also been tipped for "An Orchestra of Minorities," a saga of love and exile.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Founded in 1969, the prize is open to English-language authors from around the world.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prize, which often delivers a big boost in sales and profile to the winner, was sponsored for 18 years by investment firm Man Group and known as the Man Booker Prize.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This year it reverted to its original name, the Booker Prize, under a new sponsor: the Crankstart Foundation founded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife, writer Harriet Heyman.</p>
<p class="title">Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is bookmakers' favourite to win the coveted fiction trophy for a second time Monday for "The Testaments," her follow-up to dystopian saga "The Handmaid's Tale."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Atwood, who won in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" is one of six finalists for the 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize, whose winner will be announced during a dinner ceremony at London's medieval Guildhall.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also in the 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-page stream-of-consciousness novel "Ducks, Newburyport."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other 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 the kaleidoscopic "Girl, Woman, Other."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma has also been tipped for "An Orchestra of Minorities," a saga of love and exile.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Founded in 1969, the prize is open to English-language authors from around the world.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prize, which often delivers a big boost in sales and profile to the winner, was sponsored for 18 years by investment firm Man Group and known as the Man Booker Prize.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This year it reverted to its original name, the Booker Prize, under a new sponsor: the Crankstart Foundation founded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife, writer Harriet Heyman.</p>