The Booker Prize longlist is announced
The initial thirteen contenders for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have been announced today, with several titles from Bookhugger publishers making the prestigious list.
The exciting longlist, chosen from possible 138 titles, 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 2010 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7 September. The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction will receive £50,000 and can look forward to greatly increased sales and worldwide recognition. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, will receive £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their shortlisted book.
Chaired by Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, the 2010 judges are Rosie Blau, Literary Editor of the Financial Times; Deborah Bull, formerly a dancer, now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House as well as a writer and broadcaster; Tom Sutcliffe, journalist, broadcaster and author and Frances Wilson, biographer and critic.
