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Created in 1968 by Jonathan Cape publisher Tom Maschler, the Man Booker Prize is the most prestigious award in Commonwealth and Irish literature. Some of the finest writers of our time have won it, including Salmon Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood and Roddy Doyle. Martin Amis is a notable absentee from the list.

THE 2010 WINNER

Howard Jacobson won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, a comic novel about Jewish identity in Britain. The chair of judges, Sir Andrew Motion, said the book was "very funny, of course, but also very clever, very sad, and very subtle." The jury was divided, with Jacobson's book winning out by the narrow margin of three to two.

THE 2010 SHORTLIST

The shortlist for the 2010 Booker Prize was announced on 7 September:

Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)

Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)

Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)

Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

CARRY ON THE DEBATE

The Man Booker Prize website has much to recommend it. You can read features on previous winners, discover the most controversial moments in the prize's history, and debate the decisions of the judging panel with other readers.

13 October 2010

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Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize 2009

Hilary Mantel, who won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall. (Photo by Sarah Lee.)

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