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

Nominees (Shortlist)

AuthorTitleGenre(s)CountryPublisher
Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in AmericaNovelAustraliaFaber and Faber
Emma DonoghueRoomNovelCanadaPicador
Damon GalgutIn a Strange RoomNovelSouth AfricaAtlantic Books
Howard JacobsonThe Finkler QuestionNovelUKBloomsbury
Andrea LevyThe Long SongNovelUK/JamaicaHeadline Review
Tom McCarthyCNovelUKJonathan Cape

Nominees (Longlist)

AuthorTitleGenre(s)CountryPublisher
Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in AmericaNovelAustraliaFaber and Faber
Emma DonoghueRoomNovelCanadaPicador
Helen DunmoreThe BetrayalNovelUKFig Tree
Damon GalgutIn a Strange RoomNovelSouth AfricaAtlantic Books
Howard JacobsonThe Finkler QuestionNovelUKBloomsbury
Andrea LevyThe Long SongNovelUK/JamaicaHeadline Publishing Group
Tom McCarthyCNovelUKJonathan Cape
David MitchellThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de ZoetNovelUKSceptre
Lisa MooreFebruaryFictionCanadaRandom House
Paul MurraySkippy DiesNovelUKHamish Hamilton
Rose TremainTrespassNovelUKChatto & Windus
Christos TsiolkasThe SlapNovelAustraliaAllen & Unwin
Alan WarnerThe Stars in the Bright SkyNovelScotlandJonathan Cape

References

  1. "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  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". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  4. "The Man Booker Prize 2010 - The Winner". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  5. "Booker prize 2010: is Howard Jacobson a worthy winner?". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2010.