Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker prize for Lincoln in the Bardo
American author George Saunders has won the Â£50,000 Man Booker prize for 'Lincoln in the Bardo'. The book, which is 58-year-old Saunders' first full-length novel, is based on a real event in 1862 wherein then President Abraham Lincoln visited a cemetery where his son was buried. "Fiction is a way of making us endure ambiguity and see truth", Sanders said.