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2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced
 The shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlist was announced by Chair of judges, Sir Andrew Motion, at a press conference held at Man's London headquarters. The six books, selected from the Man Booker Prize longlist of 13, are:
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- The Long Song by Andrea Levy
- C by Tom McCarthy
Chair of judges Andrew Motion, said, "It's been a great privilege and an exciting challenge for us to reduce our longlist of thirteen to this shortlist of six outstandingly good novels. In doing so, we feel sure we've chosen books which demonstrate a rich variety of styles and themes - while in every case providing deep individual pleasures."
The winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will receive a cheque for 50,000 pounds and worldwide recognition, which can lead to a big boost in book sales. Last year's winning novel, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, has now sold over half a million copies in the UK alone. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives 2,500 pounds and a designer bound edition of their shortlisted book.
Posted on September 7, 2010
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2010 Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced
The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have anounced the longlist of 13 books. The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, said, "Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. 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."
The longlist includes:
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber)
- Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan MacMillan - Picador)
- The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Penguin - Fig Tree)
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury)
- The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)
- C by Tom McCarthy (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)
- February by Lisa Moore (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)
- Trespass by Rose Tremain (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
- The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
Posted on July 27, 2010
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Hilary Mandel Wins Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mandel has won the Man Booker Prize for the novel, Wolf Hall. The Bookseller reports:
On picking up the 50,000 [pound] award at tonight's (6th October) ceremony at London's Guildhall, the author said she was "happily flying through the air".
The win will come as no surprise to the bookies, who had Mantel leading the pack since the shortlist was announced a month ago.
This morning The Bookseller reported that Mantel had become the first ever odds-on favourite in the race to win the Man Booker prize: Ladbroke's was offering odds of 8/13, while at William Hill she was placed at 10/11.
The last time the favourite won was 2002, when Yann Martell's Life of Pi (Canongate) took home the prize.
James Naughtie, the head of the judges panel said the book was "a thoroughly modern novel set in the 16th century" with a "vast narrative sweep that gleams on every page with luminous and mesmerising detail". Hilary Mantel has won several other awards, including the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Fludd.
You can read more about Hilary and the Man Booker Prize
here.
Posted on October 6, 2009
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2009 Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced
The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize have announced the longlist of 13 titles - also known as the Man Booker Dozen.
- AS Byatt, The Children's Book (Random House - Chatto and Windus)
- Coetzee, J M, Summertime (Random House - Harvill Secker)
- Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
- Sarah Hall, How to paint a dead man (Faber and Faber)
- Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
- James Lever, Me Cheeta (HarperCollins - Fourth Estate)
- Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (HarperCollins - Fourth Estate)
- Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (Little, Brown)
- Ed O'Loughlin, Not Untrue & Not Unkind (Penguin - Ireland)
- JamesScudamore, Heliopolis (Random House - Harvill Secker)
- Colm Toibin, Brooklyn (Penguin - Viking)
- William Trevor, Love and Summer (Penguin - Viking)
- Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (Little, Brown - Virago)
The chair of judges, James Naughtie, said, "The five Man Booker judges have settled on thirteen novels as the longlist for this year's prize. We believe it to be one of the strongest lists in recent memory, with two former winners, four past-shortlisted writers, three first-time novelists and a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix."
Posted on July 28, 2009
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Man Booker International Prize 2009 Announces List of Contenders
 The Man Booker International Prize has announced the Judges' List of Contenders for this year's prize. The Man Booker International Prize differs from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction in that it highlights one writer's continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. It is awarded every two years. Here's the list of contendors which includes E.L. Doctorow, Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates.
- Peter Carey (Australia)
- Evan S. Connell (USA)
- Mahasweta Devi (India)
- E.L. Doctorow (USA)
- James Kelman (UK)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
- Arnost Lustig (Czechoslovakia)
- Alice Munro (Canada)
- V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India)
- Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
- Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
- Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya)
- Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia)
- Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
Two of the contenders have previously won the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Peter Carey won the Booker Prize twice - in 1988 and in 2001. James Kelman won the Booker Prize in 1994. The winner of this year's Man Booker International Prize will be announced in May 2009, and the winner will be presented with their award at a ceremony in Dublin on 25 June 2009.
Posted on March 18, 2009
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