Man Booker Prize announces 2010 longlist
28th July 2010
Australian author
Peter Carey has been included on the longlist for the Man
Booker Prize for Fiction once again.
Carey, who won the award in 1988 with Oscar
and Lucinda and in 2001 with True
History of the Kelly Gang, was included in the 13-strong
longlist for Parrot
and Olivier in America.
Other titles that have been nominated for the English-speaking
world's leading literary prize include
Helen Dunmore's The
Betrayal, The
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by
David Mitchell and
Christos Tsiolkas' The
Slap.
Sir Andrew Motion, chair of the judging panel, said that the 13
selected novels have been chosen on their own merits, without
consideration being given to their authors' past works.
'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,' he added.
Last year,
Hilary Mantel scooped the GBP 50,000 Man Booker Prize for
Wolf
Hall, seeing off competition from a shortlist that
included
J.M. Coetzee,
A.S. Byatt and
Sarah Waters.
The 2010 Man Booker Prize longlist in full:
Peter Carey - Parrot
and Olivier in America
Emma Donoghue - Room
Helen Dunmore - The
Betrayal
Damon Galgut - In a
Strange Room
Howard Jacobson - The
Finkler Question
Andrea Levy - The Long
Song
Tom McCarthy - C
David Mitchell - The
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Lisa Moore - February
Paul Murray - Skippy
Dies
Rose Tremain - Trespass
Christos Tsiolkas - The
Slap
Alan Warner - The
Stars in the Bright Sky