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Man Booker Prize 2017: Who is George Saunders?
A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997.
George Saunders is a US author of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and a novel. He was born on December 2, 1958. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ.
He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian until October 2008.
A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006 Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".
Awards:
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize.
George Saunders
He is the only second US writer to win the Man Booker Prize. Last year Paul Beatty became the first American to win the award for his novel "The Sellout".
Award winning book
In his novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other.
Award function press meet
'Fiction is a way of making us endure ambiguity and see truth' - Man Booker 2017 winner George Saunders at the press conference. Courtesy: @ManBookerPrize
Saunders receives Man Booker prize
The Man Booker 2017 winner George Saunders receives their trophy from HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and cheque from ManGroup Chief Executive Luke Ellis.
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