The 2009 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 6 October 2009. The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 2 August, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 8 September. The Man Booker Prize was awarded to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall.
Judging panel James Naughtie (Chair) Lucasta Miller Michael Prodger Professor John Mullan Sue Perkins
Nominees (Shortlist) Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher A. S. Byatt The Children's Book Novel UK Random House, Chatto and Windus J. M. Coetzee Summertime Novel South Africa, Australia Random House, Harvill Secker Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze Novel UK Random House, Jonathan Cape Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Novel UK HarperCollins, Fourth Estate Simon Mawer The Glass Room Novel UK Little, Brown Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Novel UK Little, Brown, Virago
Nominees (Longlist) Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher A. S. Byatt The Children's Book Novel UK Random House, Chatto and Windus William Trevor Love and Summer Novel Ireland Viking J. M. Coetzee Summertime Novel South Africa, Australia Random House, Harvill Secker James Lever Me Cheeta Novel 4th Estate Adam FouldsThe Quickening Maze Novel UK Random House, Jonathan Cape Sarah Hall How to Paint a Dead Man Novel UK Faber Samantha Harvey The Wilderness Novel UK Jonathan Cape James Scudamore Heliopolis Novel UK Harvill Secker Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Novel UK HarperCollins, Fourth Estate Colm Tóibín Brooklyn Novel Ireland Viking Simon Mawer The Glass Room Novel UK Little, Brown Ed O'Loughlin Not Untrue and Not Unkind Novel Ireland, Canada Penguin Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Novel UK Little, Brown, Virago
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