LONDON: US author George Saunders won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his first full-length novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.

The book weaves a tale around the death of Abraham Lincoln’s 11-year-old son Willie, using the accounts of hundreds of narrators.

He became the second US author to win the world’s most prestigious English-language literary award following last year’s victory by Paul Beatty for his novel, The Sellout.

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2017