The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction LONGLIST
HERE’S a list of 13 novels that made it to the longlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It’s a predictable-in-a-nice-sort-of-way kind of list; no surprises, except for a couple of strange choices:
1. Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Peter Carey2. Room (Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2010) / Emma Donoghue
3. The Betrayal (Fig Tree/Penguin) / Helen Dunmore
4. In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books/Grove Atlantic, 2010) / Damon Galgut
5. The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Howard Jacobson6. The Long Song (Headline Review/Headline, 2010) / Andrea Levy
7. C (Jonathan Cape/Random House, 2010) / Tom McCarthy
8. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton, 2010) / David Mitchell
9. February (Chatto & Windus/Random House, 2010) / Lisa Moore
10. Skippy Dies (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2010) / Paul Murray11. Trespass (Chatto & Windus/Random House, 2010) / Rose Tremain
12. The Slap (Tuskar Rock/Grove Atlantic, 2010) / Christos Tsiolkas
13. The Stars in the Bright Sky (Jonathan Cape/Random House, 2010) / Alan Warner
Chaired by Andrew Motion, the line-up of judges in 2010 include Rosie Blau, Deborah Bull, Tom Sutcliffe and Frances Wilson.
The shortlist will be announced on September 7, 2010, and the announcement of the winner will be made on October 12, 2010.
posted by Eric Forbes at 4:07 PM
4 Comments:
What's your shortlist like?
I hope the following books will make it to the shortlist:
1. Parrot and Olivier in America / Peter Carey
2. Room / Emma Donoghue
3. The Betrayal / Helen Dunmore
4. In a Strange Room / Damon Galgut
5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet / David Mitchell
6. February / Lisa Moore
Who do you think will win?
Either David Mitchell or Emma Donoghue.
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