The winner of this year’s edition has just been revealed by the president of the Jury, Amanda Foreman, during a ceremony at the Guildhall in London.
The satire of the racial Sellout, of the north american Paul Beatty is the winner of the Man Booker Prize, the highest award of literature in the English language in the United Kingdom.
The author, 54 years old, thus becomes the first north american to win this award. “I can’t tell you how long this trip was,” said Paul Beatty, when he came to the stage to receive the award, in the amount of 59 thousand euros. “Writing has given me a life,” said the american, a native of Los Angeles, who published his first book in 1991, Big Bank Take Little Bank, an edition that managed thanks to the title of champion of the Grand Poetry Slam, Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan.
The other five finalists were Deborah Levy (United Kingdom), with Hot Milk, published by Hamish Hamilton, Graeme Macrae Burnet (United Kingdom), with His Bloody Project, published by Contraband,Otessa Mosgfegh (United States), with Eileen, published by Jonathan Cape, David Szalay (Canada/United States of America), with All That Man Is, also published by Jonathan Cape and Madeleine Thien (Canada), Do Not Say We Have Nothing, published by Granta Books.
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