Earlier this year, we highlighted one of the Booker Prize shortlist as particularly interesting and a front runner for the award. That book was Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Yesterday, the Booker Prize committee announced that George Saunders was the winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Considered the premier prize in the... Continue Reading →
When the Booker Prize shortlist was announced yesterday a Zealot Script favourite was missing. Unfortunately for author Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad has missed out on scooping the most prestigious literary prize of them all. We're sure that Colson is not too disheartened as he can console himself with the fact that he has already... Continue Reading →
Having already taken home the 2017 Pulitzer prize, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction (from the US based National Book Foundation) and being one of six nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Underground Railroad has been taking the literary world by storm. The latest accolade to come the way of this exciting... Continue Reading →
