2016 Man Booker Prize
The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016. The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September. Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds, and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.