Prize judges broke their own rules: Booker boo-boo

Those of a certain age — among them veteran Canadian writer Margaret Atwood — may well remember the Eurovision Song Contest of 1969 in which four countries (the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, and France) won, the first time a tie had occurred.

It was greeted with astonishment and derision by Eurovision fans and for a number of years thereafter diminished the value of the contest.