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2017 Man Booker prize
October 19 , 2017
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- US author George Saunders won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award for his first full-length novel “Lincoln in the Bardo”.
- It is the second year in a row an American has won the prize. Last year Paul Beatty won the prize for his novel “The Sellout”.
- The rules were changed in 2014 and allowed authors of any book written in English and published in UK to compete for this prize.
- ‘The Man Booker Prize’, which was launched in 1969, aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
- Similarly, ‘The Man Booker International Prize’ was established in 2005, biennially rewarding an author for a body of work originally written in any language as long as it was widely available in English. Both novels and collections of short stories are eligible for this prize.
- From its inception, only Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize.
- In 2016, the award was significantly reconfigured, and is now given annually to a single book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.
- The prize was won by writers Paul Beatty (2016) and George Saunders (2017) from the United States of America.
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