Paul Beatty beats out Canadians Thien, Szalay as Man Booker Prize winner
LONDON — Paul Beatty has won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for “The Sellout.”
He is the first American novelist to take the prestigious literary award.
Judges said Beatty’s provocative book, a stinging satire of race and class in the United States, was as timely as the evening news.
Two Canadians had been in the running for the award, which comes with a cash prize of 50,000 pounds, or approximately C$80,000.