George Saunders

George Saunders has written eight books, including the short story collections Twelfth of December (Folio Prize 2014) and Pastoralia. He has been a fellow of the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013, he received the PEN/Malamud Short Story Award and was included in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His first novel, Oblivion and Lincoln, won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He teaches on the Creative Writing Programme at Syracuse University.