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Man Booker Prize for Literature

Man Booker Prize is given each year for the best novel written in the English language. The author must be a citizen of the United Kingdom or former British colonies (the Commonwealth) or Ireland.

The Prize was first presented in 1969. Today it amounts to 50,000 pounds (over $100,000). It is a very prestigious award.

Selection Process

UK publishers submit full length novels published between Oct 1st and Sept 30th. Judges develop a longlist of 13 books by August. They then narrow these down to a shortlist of six books by September. The Man Booker Prize is announced in October.

Here is the 2010 Man-Booker Prize Longlist:

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
Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Bloomsbury
Andrea Levy	The Love Song	Headline
Tom McCarthy	C	Random House - Jonathan Cape
David Mitchell	*The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet*	Hodder & Stoughton
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

The shortlist will be announced on September 7th.

Here are the winners since 1975:

Year	Author	Book
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall
2008	Aravind Adiga	White Tiger
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2005	John Banville	The Sea
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin
1999	J M Coetzee	Disgrace
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient
1992	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road
1990	A S Byatt	Possession: A Romance
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac
1983	J M Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On
1976	David Storey	Saville
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust

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