Paul Beatty
The Sellout
Oneworld Publications
2016 will go down in history as the year that the first American won the prize. Paul Beatty, a 54-year-old New York resident, scooped the prize with The Sellout. The award was the second consecutive win for small independent publisher, Oneworld, who immediately ordered a 180,000 reprint of the book. The Sellout has since gone on to sell over 350,000 copies and the film rights have been optioned.
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Shortlisted authors
Deborah Levy
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Ottessa Moshfegh
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David Szalay
Madeleine Thien
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