MAN BOOKER
2010
Man Booker Short List announced
7 Sept 2010
The 2010 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 7 September at a press conference at Man Group's London headquarters
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic
Books)
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
(Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy The Long Song
(Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)
Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
LONGLIST
The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today, Tuesday 27 July,
announce the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the
English speaking world.
A total of 138 books, 14 of which were called in by the judges, were
considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen' longlist of 13 books.
The longlist includes:
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)
Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic
Books)
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
(Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy The Long Song
(Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)
Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hodder
& Stoughton - Sceptre)
Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)
Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky
(Random House - Jonathan Cape)
The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, comments:
"Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their
intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors.
Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful
stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of
history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and
entertain."
Peter Carey is one of only two authors to have won the prize twice, in 1988
for Oscar and Lucinda and 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 1985
his book Illywhacker was shortlisted for the prize and Theft: A Love Story
was longlisted in 2006.
Three authors have been shortlisted before: David Mitchell (twice
shortlisted in 2001 for number9dream and in 2004 for Cloud Atlas), Damon
Galgut (in 2003 for The Good Doctor) and Rose Tremain (shortlisted in 1989
for Restoration). She was also a judge for the Booker Prize in 1988 and
2000.
Howard Jacobson has been longlisted twice for his book Kalooki Nights in
2006 and for Who's Sorry Now? in 2002.
The 2010 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7 September at a press
conference at Man Group's London headquarters. The winner of the Man Booker
Prize for Fiction 2010 will be revealed on Tuesday 12 October at a dinner at
London's Guildhall and will be broadcast on the BBC Ten O'Clock News.
