Which of the following has won the Booker Prize for Literature twice ?

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Accepted Answer

Margaret Atwood has won the Booker Prize for Literature twice, making Option 4 the correct answer. She won the prize in 2000 for *The Blind Assassin* and again in 2019 (jointly with Bernardine Evaristo) for *The Testaments*.

Here's why the other options are incorrect:

*   **Option 1: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:** While Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won the Booker Prize in 1975 for *Heat and Dust*, she only won it once.

*   **Option 2: Iris Murdoch:** Iris Murdoch won the Booker Prize in 1978 for *The Sea, The Sea*, but she only won it once.

*   **Option 3: Michael Ondaatje:** Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize in 1992 for *The English Patient* (jointly with Barry Unsworth). He also won the Golden Booker Prize in 2018 for the same novel. However, the Golden Booker is a special one-off award celebrating the best novel from the prize's first 50 years, not a standard Booker Prize win. Therefore, he has only won the Booker Prize once.

Therefore, only Margaret Atwood has won the Booker Prize for Literature twice, confirming Option 4 as the correct answer.