O n October 17, at the splendid annual dinner in London’s Guildhall, broadcast live on the BBC, George Saunders received the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo. This was, by Booker Prize standards, an uneventful outcome. There were no obvious fissures among the judging panel, none of the losing novelists walked out, and the bookmakers, who play an outsized role in the lead-up to the prize, had installed Saunders as the favorite, so there was no upset angle to the story. The chair of the judges, Lola, Baroness Young, paid tribute to Saunders’s book:

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关于 2017 年布克奖

10 月 17 日，在 BBC 现场直播的伦敦市政厅举行的盛大年度晚宴上，乔治·桑德斯凭借小说《中阴的林肯》获得 2017 年布克奖。按照布克奖的标准，这是一个平安无事的结果。评审团之间没有明显的裂痕，没有一个落选的小说家退出，而在开奖前发挥了巨大作用的博彩公司将桑德斯设置为最喜欢的，所以没有翻转角度故事。评委主席洛拉·杨男爵夫人对桑德斯的书表示敬意：