US author George Saunders after being announced as the winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for fiction, at the Guildhall in central London, on Tuesday. Photo: AFPLondon: US author George Saunders became only the second American writer to win Britain’s renowned Man Booker Prize, which was awarded for his first full-length novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Well, this tonight is culture.”This year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist pitted three US and three British writers against one another. The award, launched in 1969, was only open to writers from Commonwealth states until it began permitting authors from other English-speaking countries in 2014. Last year Paul Beatty became the first American to win the award for his novel The Sellout.

Source: Mint October 18, 2017 02:53 UTC