paul beatty first us author to win man booker prize
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For his novel “The Sellout” late Tuesday.

Paul Beatty first US author to win Man Booker Prize

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(L-R) Luke Ellis, Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for his novel 'The Sellout', Paul Beatty, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Dr Amanda Foreman attend the 2016 Man Booker Prize at The Guildhall on October 25, 2016 in London, England.
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Paul Beatty became the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize — the world’s most prestigious English-language literary award — for his novel “The Sellout” late Tuesday.
The jury said the novel was a “shocking and unexpectedly funny” portrayal of his native Los Angeles, which employs satire to explore racial equality in a fictional neighborhood.
“I can’t tell you guys how long a journey this has been for me,” the writer, overwhelmed with emotion, said as he received the award from Prince Charles’s wife Camilla.
“In his equally affectionate and bitterly ironic portrait of the city and its inhabitants, Paul Beatty dodges inherited views of race relations, solutions or assumptions,” the jury said.
The author “presents through his beguilingly honest and well-intentioned hero an innocent’s view of his corrupt world.”
They said that the book brings “the unendurable status quo of present day US race relations to an absurdist conclusion, taking political correctness and self-loathing hostage en route.”
“The Sellout” is Beatty’s fourth novel and earlier this year it won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States.
The winner of the Man Booker receives £52,500, although the real prize is seen as the huge sales prompted the moment judges announce their decision.
It was only opened to non-Commonwealth authors from 2013 — a decision that was highly controversial in Britain.
No US author had won it until now, despite concerns that writers from the United States would dominate the prize.
Jury chair Amanda Foreman said nationality had nothing to do with the choice.

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