
Noting the disruptive period we are currently living through, he said: "If you haven't noticed, we live in a strange time. and also especially all of the booksellers who sold it."

In his acceptance speech, Saunders expressed his gratitude to several people, including "all the critics who wrote about the book- all of them. Last night in London, George Saunders won the £50,000 (about $66,095) Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House), becoming the second American author to win the award in its 48-year history.
