Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, Paul Beatty attends the 2016 Man Booker Prize at The Guildhall in London. Photos: Reuters
Paul Beatty has been named the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize, for The Sellout, a biting satire on race relations in the United States.
The narrator of The Sellout, an African-American called "Bonbon" tries to put his Californian town back on the map, from which it has been officially removed, by re-introducing slavery and segregation in its high school.
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