Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty becomes first US winner for The Sellout

Posted by Chauncey Koziol on Wednesday, July 17, 2024

"I just had a sheaf of papers and started reading and I just lost it," he said. "It hit me at that moment that I had written what was in my head… the tone, the language, emotion, the humour, it just all matched. I shocked myself that I was able to do that."

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