Carey, Jacobson Make Final Round in Man Booker Fiction Prize
Author Peter Carey
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Author Peter Carey. Carey's latest book is "Parrot and Oliver in America."
Author Peter Carey. Carey's latest book is "Parrot and Oliver in America." Photographer: Ashley Gilbertson/Faber via Bloomberg
"Parrot and Oliver in America"
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The book jacket of "Parrot and Oliver in America." The book is by Peter Carey.
The book jacket of "Parrot and Oliver in America." The book is by Peter Carey. Source: Faber via Bloomberg
Howard Jacobson, the author of "The Finkler Question." Photographer: Jenny Jacobson/Bloomsbury via Bloomberg
"The Finkler Question"
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The cover jacket of "The Finkler Question." The book is by Howard Jacobson.
The cover jacket of "The Finkler Question." The book is by Howard Jacobson. Source: Bloomsbury via Bloomberg
Peter Carey and Howard Jacobson were tapped as two of the six finalists in the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award.
Sponsored by hedge-fund manager Man Group Plc, the contest brings the winner a prize of 50,000 pounds ($76,900) and the promise of an almost certain increase in book sales.
Carey, who has won the prize twice before, made the final round with “Parrot and Olivier in America” (Faber/Knopf), a novel based loosely on the travels of Alexis de Tocqueville.
Jacobson was nominated for “The Finkler Question” (Bloomsbury), a comedy about a man who feels that tragic love -- or tragedy period -- is his calling. Other shortlisted authors hailed from South Africa and Ireland, the organizers said in an e-mailed statement today.
“We feel sure we’ve chosen books which demonstrate a rich variety of styles and themes -- while in every case providing deep individual pleasures,” said the chairman of the judging panel, former U.K. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in the release.
The other finalists are Emma Donoghue for “Room” (Picador/Little, Brown); Damon Galgut for “In a Strange Room” (Atlantic); Andrea Levy for “The Long Song” (Headline/Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and Tom McCarthy for “C” (Jonathan Cape/Knopf).
The Man Booker contest is designed to celebrate the best novel written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe and published this year. The winner for 2010 is scheduled to be announced at a dinner in London’s medieval Guildhall on Oct. 12.
To contact the writer on the story: James Pressley in Brussels at jpressley@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Beech at mbeech@bloomberg.net.
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