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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

Published Wed, Oct 18, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    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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