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American Paul Beatty's race satire wins Man Booker Prize

Author Paul Beatty poses for photographs during a photo-call in LondonBy Nigel Stephenson LONDON (Reuters) - Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize for "The Sellout", a biting satire on race relations in the United States. Chair of the five judges for the 50,000 pound prize Amanda Foreman said "The Sellout" had been a unanimous choice, reached after a meeting lasting some four hours. "It plunges into the heart of contemporary American society with absolutely savage wit of the kind I haven't seen since Swift or Twain," she said. ...


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