Irish authors Emma Donoghue and Paul Murray have been included in the 2010 Man Booker longlist where they join eleven other authors on this year’s 13 strong list.
Donoghue’s Room, is published by Picador and Murrary’s Skippy Dies is published by Hamish Hamilton.
The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7th September and the winner will be revealed on Tuesday 12th October.
The panel of judges for the award is chaired by Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate and the remaining judges are Rosie Blau, Literary Editor of the Financial Times; Deborah Bull, formerly a dancer, now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House as well as a writer and broadcaster; Tom Sutcliffe, journalist, broadcaster and author and Frances Wilson, biographer and critic.
The Full list is below:
Peter Carey ~ Parrot and Oliver in America ~ Faber and Faber
Emma Donoghue ~ Room ~ Picador
Helen Dunmore ~ The Betrayal ~ Fig Tree
Damon Galgut ~ In a Strange Room ~ Atlantic Books
Howard Jacobson ~ The Finkler Question ~ Bloomsbury
Andrea Levy ~ The Long Song ~ Headline Publishing Group
Tom McCarthy ~ C ~ Jonathan Cape
David Mitchell ~ The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet ~ Sceptre
Lisa Moore ~ February ~ Chatto & Windus
Paul Murray ~ Skippy Dies ~ Hamish Hamilton
Rose Tremain ~ Trespass ~ Chatto & Windus
Christos Tsiolkas ~ The Slap ~ Tuskar Rock
Alan Warner ~ The Stars in the Bright Sky ~ Jonathan Cape
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An chéad, lig dom a rá go bhfuil an liosta seo ar cheann láidir agus creidmheasa mé gach údar do cad tá siad i gcrích. féin is mo mothú go Tsiolkas ~ Lí Beidh Christos teacht amach as an áit agus buaigh. phríomh phointe mo seo agus tá rud ar bith a dhéanamh leis an caighdeán a scríobh a ba mhaith liom an dara áit dlúth agus go bhfuil Donoghue bhfuil cónaí Emma i gCeanada ó 98 agus tá sé ina saoránach Cheanada. Caitheann sí a cuid ama idir Ceanada agus i Sasana. Mar sin, a rugadh Cé go Gaeilge, tá sí a fréamhacha forsaken Gaeilge. Ag glaoch ar an scríbhneoir a bheadh sí ag iarraidh Gaeilge a bheith mar leabhar ag Kennedy Meiriceánach agus leabhar Gaeilge nó an údar. Arís, is breá liom a leabhar ach ligean ar a bheith macánta maidir le saoránacht agus nuair a tharraingt ar an líne againn ar cad is scríbhneoir Gaeilge.