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The 2017 Booker Prize for Fiction
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. ...
was awarded at a ceremony on 17 October 2017. The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September. George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a w ...
was awarded the 2017 Booker Prize for his novel ''Lincoln in the Bardo'', receiving £50,000 (~$65,000), and becoming the second American author in a row to be awarded the prize.
Judging panel
* Lola, Baroness Young *Lila Azam Zanganeh
Lila Azam Zanganeh is a writer raised in Paris, France, by exiled Iranian parents. She lives and works in New York City. She is the author of ''The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness'' (Penguin Books, 2011). She was a member of the jury for the 2017 ...
* Sarah Hall
* Colin Thubron
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, FRAS (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, ''The Times'' ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to ''The New York Review of Books'',
* Tom Phillips
Nominees
Shortlist
Longlist
See also
*List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize 4
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth ...
References
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