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February 10, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Booker winner Carey tops 2010 shortlist

Author Peter Carey
8 September 2010 / ,
Two-time Man Booker winner Australian author Peter Carey, Howard Jacobson and Andrea Levy go head to head in the final field of six authors vying for one of the world’s most influential literary prizes.
But the popular selling “The Slap” by Christos Tsiolkas did not make the cut for the 2010 Man Booker Prize shortlist, the judges said on Tuesday. The other shortlisted authors are Emma Donoghue, Damon Galgut and Tom McCarthy who is 2/1 to win the prize with his novel “C.”

The judges, chaired by former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion, had to whittle down a list of 13 previously selected books which the organizers said had achieved the best sales for a so-called “long list” since 2001. The winner of the 50,000 pound ($76,790) prize, which can catapult an author to worldwide success, will be announced on Oct. 12.

The 2009 prize was awarded to Hilary Mantel for her historical novel “Wolf Hall,” which depicted Henry VIII’s court through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell. Past winners of the prestigious competition, which aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Ireland, include V.S. Naipaul, William Golding and Salman Rushdie.

 
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