Man Booker: Why Saunders is such a deserving winner

By Jason Steger
Updated October 18 2017 - 10:47am, first published 9:52am

It's a wonderful thing that George Saunders has won this year's Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo. Wonderful because this is the sort of book that should win a significant and influential prize such as the Booker - challenging, original, ventriloquial, engaging, audacious and, ultimately, deeply compassionate.