George Saunders Quote
This meal we just ate? says Aunt Lydia. In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten by royalty.There are countries where people could live one year on what we throw out in one week, says Grandpa Kirk.I thought it was they could live one year on what we throw out in one day, says Grandma Sally.I thought it was they could live ten years on what we throw out in one minute, says Uncle Gus.Well anyway, says Doris. We are very lucky.
George Saunders
This meal we just ate? says Aunt Lydia. In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten by royalty.There are countries where people could live one year on what we throw out in one week, says Grandpa Kirk.I thought it was they could live one year on what we throw out in one day, says Grandma Sally.I thought it was they could live ten years on what we throw out in one minute, says Uncle Gus.Well anyway, says Doris. We are very lucky.
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About George Saunders
A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Booker Prize.