2010 Man Booker Prize
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
- Sir Andrew Motion (Chair)
- Rosie Blau
- Deborah Bull
- Tom Sutcliffe
- Frances Wilson
Nominees (Shortlist)
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | Novel | Australia | Faber and Faber |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | Novel | Canada | Picador |
| Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | Novel | South Africa | Atlantic Books |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Novel | UK | Bloomsbury |
| Andrea Levy | The Long Song | Novel | UK/Jamaica | Headline Review |
| Tom McCarthy | C | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
Nominees (Longlist)
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | Novel | Australia | Faber and Faber |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | Novel | Canada | Picador |
| Helen Dunmore | The Betrayal | Novel | UK | Fig Tree |
| Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | Novel | South Africa | Atlantic Books |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Novel | UK | Bloomsbury |
| Andrea Levy | The Long Song | Novel | UK/Jamaica | Headline Publishing Group |
| Tom McCarthy | C | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
| David Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | Novel | UK | Sceptre |
| Lisa Moore | February | Fiction | Canada | Random House |
| Paul Murray | Skippy Dies | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| Rose Tremain | Trespass | Novel | UK | Chatto & Windus |
| Christos Tsiolkas | The Slap | Novel | Australia | Allen & Unwin |
| Alan Warner | The Stars in the Bright Sky | Novel | Scotland | Jonathan Cape |
References
- ^ "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "The Man Booker Dozen longlist of 13 books has been announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- ^ "The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "The Man Booker Prize 2010 - The Winner". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "Booker prize 2010: is Howard Jacobson a worthy winner?". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
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Recipients of the Booker Prize
- 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For)
- 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member)
- 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles)
- 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State)
- 1972: John Berger (G.)
- 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur)
- 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday)
- 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
- 1976: David Storey (Saville)
- 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On)
- 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)
- 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore)
- 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage)
- 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)
- 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark)
- 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K)
- 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
- 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People)
- 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils)
- 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger)
- 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
- 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession)
- 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road)
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger)
- 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)
- 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late)
- 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
- 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders)
- 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
- 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam)
- 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
- 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang)
- 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
- 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little)
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty)
- 2005: John Banville (The Sea)
- 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
- 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering)
- 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
- 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
- 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
- 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
- 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)
- 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
- 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
- 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
- 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
- 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo)
- 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman)
- 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
- 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
- 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
- 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)
