The devices are real enough to be believable, yet surreal enough to raise your eyebrows." The book took more than five years to complete. The Sellout was awarded the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and the 2016 Man Booker Prize. Beatty is the first American to have won the Man Booker Prize, for which all English-language novels became eligible in 2014. Awards and honors 2009 Creative Capital Award for Slumberland 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction), winner for The Sellout. 2016 Booker Prize winner for The Sellout. 2017 International Dublin Literary Award long-list for The Sellout Works Poetry Big Bank Take Little Bank (1991). Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press. Joker, Joker, Deuce (1994). Fiction The White Boy Shuffle (1996). Tuff (2000). Alfred A. Knopf. Slumberland (2008). Bloomsbury USA, The Sellout (2015). New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016. (hardback), 978-1786070159 (paperback) Edited volume Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006). Bloomsbury USA. References External links Beatty, Paul, "Black Humor", The New York Times, January 22, 2006. African American Literature Book Club for Paul Beatty Excerpt from Slumberland at BookBrowse Interview at Full Stop, June 30, 2015. Gatti, Tom, "Paul Beatty: 'I invented a Richter scale for racism'", New Statesman, November 2, 2016. Oscar Villalon, "Paul Beatty on Los Angeles Lit, The Sellout, and Life After the Man Booker", Zyzzyva, June 4, 2018, via LitHub. 1962 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers Writers from Los Angeles African-American novelists Booker Prize winners Brooklyn College alumni Boston University alumni Columbia University faculty Columbia University people 21st-century American novelists American humorists 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets American male novelists American male poets Anthologists 21st-century American male writers El Camino Real High School alumni Novelists from New York (state) African-American poets 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American writers African-American male writers