2010 Man Booker Shortlist Announced
There was excitement in the literary world this week as the shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced in London. The award is given annually to the best full-length English novel authored by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe published in the award year. Books that are nominated for the prize by each imprint are reviewed by a group of judges. The judges then select a group of them that are under consideration for the prize (known as the longlist). The nominees are furthered narrowed down into the shortlist, which this year is comprised of: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Two time winner) 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 The Man Booker Prize website also lists the books [...]
