Man Booker Prize
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George Saunders’ ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ wins 2017 Man Booker prize
Oct 18, 2017News Hour American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” – a fictional account of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln burying his... -
Booker finalist Thien wins top Canada fiction prize
Nov 9, 2016News Hour: Man Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien on Monday won Canada’s Giller Prize, the country’s richest fiction award, for “Do Not Say We Have Nothing”, about a young woman’s flight from China after the Tiananmen... -
Paul Beatty’s race satire wins Man Booker Prize
Oct 27, 2016News Hour: Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize, for “The Sellout”, a biting satire on race relations in the United States. The narrator of...
