Booker Prize awarded for politically incorrect satire Automatic translate

LONDON. Paul Beatty is the new Booker Prize laureate.

The reaction to the American Beatty’s victory in the Man Booker prize was mixed, as was the case with Dylan’s Nobel Prize, although the venomous arrows in The Sellout were much less. Surprisingly even and bright shortlist suggested any scenario. The chances were Hot Milk Deborah Levy, thriller Eileen Ottessa Moshfeh (Ottessa Moshfegh), and the novel about the triple murder of His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet, and Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien, and All That Man Is by David Szalay.

The jury preferred the caustic, acutely social, politically incorrect novel The Sellout, in which racism is spoken about without retouching and equivocation. The title of the book is translated as "Sale", "Cheap", "Renegade". The writer, in which the members of the jury spotted the new Swift, remained in relative obscurity for a long time. At home, The Sellout didn’t make it to the must read recommendation lists from American media and critics. Presentation of the Man Booker prize was an unexpected chance to get out of the shadows. In his interviews, Beatty talks about writing as a hard, lengthy and painful job, although she enjoys this process. He does not like to entertain, to do shows. It also does not promise readers an easy life; it sees like-minded people in them, and not thoughtless consumers of light reading. The university teacher, the first American winner of the Booker Prize, prefers not to spread about his creative plans yet.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru