Man Booker Prize Winner Is Paul Beatty, First American To Win British Prize
Lynn Neary
▻http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/25/499368241/novelist-paul-beatty-is-first-american-to-win-britains-man-booker-prize
For the first time, an American has won the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most coveted literary award. Paul Beatty will take home the award and the purse, 50,000 pounds (about $61,000), for his novel The Sellout, a satire about race in the U.S. Amanda Foreman, chair of the judges, called the book “a novel for our times,” and said Beatty “slays sacred cows with abandon and takes aim at racial and political taboos with verve and a snarl.”