US author George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize
His first full-length novel Lincoln in the Bardo chronicles a boy's death through the accounts of hundreds of narrators
London
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.
Judges for the world's most prestigious English language literary award praised as "utterly original" the book that chronicles the death of Abraham Lincoln's 11-year-old son Willie using the accounts of hundreds of narrators.
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