Longlist for Man Booker Prize Announced
A dozen authors - including some repeat performers - make the cut
By Kimberley Jones, 6:42PM, Tue. Jul. 27, 2010
The longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced today... and readers everywhere hang their heads sheepishly for spending the summer cramming Stieg Larsson.
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)
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Man Booker Prize, Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America, Emma Donoghue, Room, Helen Dunmore, Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, Andrea Levy, Tom McCarthy, David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
