Before he became a Booker Prize-winning novelist, George Saunders was an oil man. He found himself in the industry in the early 1980s, in his 20s, working as a geophysical engineer. “It was a great ...

British-Hungarian author David Szalay has won this year's Booker Prize for his novel Flesh, which the judges described as "extraordinary" and "a very special book". Flesh tells the story of an ...

Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “Flesh,” the story of an ordinary man’s life over several decades in which what isn’t on the page is just ...

István isn't one of the most talkative characters in literary fiction. He says "yeah" and "okay" a lot, and is mostly reactive to the world around him. But that quietness covers up a tumultuous life — ...

Los Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout, a racial satire set in south LA. It’s laced with cutting insights about race, ...

As we await the Nov. 10 news of the winner among the six novels short-listed for the annual Booker Prize, administrators of the prestigious award have made another announcement, a significant one that ...

LONDON (AP) — Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “Flesh,” the story of one man's life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in ...