The 2010 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 12 October 2010. The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 7 September. The Man Booker Prize was awarded to Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question.
Judging panel Sir Andrew Motion (Chair) Rosie Blau Deborah Bull Tom Sutcliffe Frances Wilson
Nominees (Shortlist) Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in America NovelAustralia Faber and Faber Emma Donoghue Room Novel Canada Picador Damon GalgutIn a Strange Room Novel South Africa Atlantic BooksHoward JacobsonThe Finkler Question Novel UK Bloomsbury Andrea LevyThe Long Song Novel UK/Jamaica Headline ReviewTom McCarthyC Novel UK Jonathan Cape
Nominees (Longlist) Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in America Novel Australia Faber and FaberEmma DonoghueRoom Novel Canada PicadorHelen DunmoreThe Betrayal Novel UK Fig TreeDamon GalgutIn a Strange RoomNovel South Africa Atlantic BooksHoward Jacobson The Finkler Question Novel UK BloomsburyAndrea LevyThe Long Song Novel UK/Jamaica Headline Publishing Group Tom McCarthyC Novel UK Jonathan CapeDavid MitchellThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Novel UK SceptreLisa MooreFebruary Fiction Canada Random HousePaul MurraySkippy Dies Novel UK Hamish HamiltonRose TremainTrespass Novel UK Chatto & WindusChristos TsiolkasThe Slap Novel Australia Allen & UnwinAlan WarnerThe Stars in the Bright Sky Novel Scotland Jonathan Cape
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