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Save for later Awards buzz is ramping up for Canadian author Margaret Atwood as one of six finalists for the Man Booker Prize. Atwood, who won the international fiction prize in 2000 for
_The Blind Assassin_, has landed a spot on the short list for _The Testaments_. The much-hyped sequel to _The Handmaid’s Tale_, which was a 1986 Booker finalist, has also earned Canadian
acclaim after being longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Atwood is joined on the Booker short list by British novelist Salman Rushdie, who won in 1981 for _Midnight’s Children_, and
is nominated this year for _Quichotte_. American author Lucy Ellmann is also finalist with her thousand-page tome _Ducks, Newburyport_, from Windsor, Ont.-based independent publisher
Biblioasis. Rounding out the short list, announced Tuesday in London, are Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma’s _An Orchestra of Minorities_, British author Bernardine Evaristo’s _Girl, Woman,
Other_ and British-Turkish author Elif Shafak for _10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World_. Founded in 1969, the £50,000 (approximately $80,600) prize is open to English-language
authors from around the world. The winner will be announced on Oct. 14. _Expand your mind and build your reading list with the Books newsletter. __Sign up today__._