Though there's no documentary evidence showing Livingston's hand at work, Foster became convinced that the poem closely matched Livingston's literary style and point of view.
We hear from former trading vice-president of Lehman's, Larry McDonald, who has written an insider's view of the systemic problems within the bank in his literary apologia "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers".
Manhad Narula, one of the organisers of the literary prize, said the winning novel "unearthed... a rare, unfiltered, inside view into a lesser known world that exists within South Asia".