It’s also a resounding victory for Beatty’s publisher, Oneworld, and more generally, for American writers who exist outside the bubble of high-end Manhattan imprints and New Yorker reviews. But its impact reverberates beyond America’s racial peculiarities and has a great deal to say about the treatment of people of color the world over. Beatty’s novel is quintessentially American, in that it’s a satirical examination of this country’s history of racial discrimination and how that history affects the country today. Still, if there’s going to be a prizewinner from this side of the Atlantic, the Booker’s judges would have been hard pressed to choose a more worthy winner: Paul Beatty, who has been awarded the prize for his riotous novel The Sellout.
Now the nightmare of Anglocentric purists has come true: the Prize has been won by, heaven forbid, an American! Three years ago, the Man Booker Prize, previously the domain of authors born in the Commonwealth, opened its door to the rest of the world.
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