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 Man Booker Prize was awarded to Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question. [4][5]
Judging panel
- Sir Andrew Motion (Chair)
- Rosie Blau
- Deborah Bull
- Tom Sutcliffe
- Frances Wilson
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
- ^ "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "The Man Booker Dozen longlist of 13 books has been announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- ^ "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "The Man Booker Prize 2010 - The Winner". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "Booker prize 2010: is Howard Jacobson a worthy winner?". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
