George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo . "This tale of the haunting and haunted souls in the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln's young son paradoxically creates a vivid and lively evocation of the characters that populate this other world. Lincoln in the Bardo is both rooted in and plays with history, and explores the meaning and experience of empathy." You can listen to that interview below:Eleanor sits down with American writer George Saunders onstage at the Toronto Reference Library. In 2016, Paul Beatty won the Man Booker Prize for The Sellout .

Source: CBC News October 17, 2017 21:03 UTC