2010 Man Booker Prize

The 2010 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 12 October 2010.[1] The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July,[2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 7 September.[3] The Prize was awarded to Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question. [4][5]

Judging panel

Nominees (Shortlist)
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America Novel Australia Faber and Faber
Emma Donoghue Room Novel Canada Picador
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room Novel South Africa Atlantic Books
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Novel UK Bloomsbury
Andrea Levy The Long Song Novel UK/Jamaica Headline Review
Tom McCarthy C Novel UK Jonathan Cape

Nominees (Longlist)
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America Novel Australia Faber and Faber
Emma Donoghue Room Novel Canada Picador
Helen Dunmore The Betrayal Novel UK Fig Tree
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room Novel South Africa Atlantic Books
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Novel UK Bloomsbury
Andrea Levy The Long Song Novel UK/Jamaica Headline Publishing Group
Tom McCarthy C Novel UK Jonathan Cape
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Novel UK Sceptre
Lisa Moore February Fiction Canada Random House
Paul Murray Skippy Dies Novel UK Hamish Hamilton
Rose Tremain Trespass Novel UK Chatto & Windus
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap Novel Australia Allen & Unwin
Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky Novel Scotland Jonathan Cape

References
  1. "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced".
  2. "The Man Booker Dozen longlist of 13 books has been announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
  3. "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced".
  4. "The Man Booker Prize 2010 - The Winner".
  5. "Booker prize 2010: is Howard Jacobson a worthy winner?". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
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