George Saunders's Striking Man Booker Win
For the second year in a row an American writer claimed the British literary prize, this time for the dazzling novel <em>Lincoln in the Bardo</em>.
For the second time in two years, an American has won one of the most prestigious global awards in literature. At a ceremony in London on Tuesday night, George Saunders accepted the 2017 Man Booker Prize for , his first novel. “The form and style of this utterly original novel reveals a witty, intelligent, and deeply moving narrative,” said Baroness Lola Young, the chairman of the judging panel. , she noted, “is both rooted in, and plays with history, and explores the meaning and experience of empathy.”
