George Saunders, bestselling short story writer who visited us in February 2013, has won the prestigious Folio Prize in England.
Full press release here: http://www.thefolioprize.com/2014/03/george-saunders-wins-the-folio-prize/
More about his visit here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/saunders_george13.html
Time magazine called Saunders, "The best short story writer in English – not ‘one of’, not ‘arguably’, but the Best."
Saunders is a vaguely familiar face from the early days of the Writers Institute when his wife had a fellowship to study here with Toni Morrison:
