2010 Man Booker Prize Winner Announced

Howard Jacobson has been awarded one of the top literary prizes for his novel The Finkler Question.  Jacobson's novel, considered to be a long shot for the prestigious prize, is a comic tale that begins with a mugging.  Finalists for the 2010 Booker Shortlist included Peter Carey for Parrot and Olivier in America, Damon Galgot for In a Strange Room, Andrea Levy for The Long Song, Tom McCarthy for C, and Canadian Emma Donoghue for Room.  Shortlisted novels have been ordered for the Library's Popular Reading Collection - for now, check out the following Booker Prize nominees:

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall

Anne Enright's The Gathering

Yann Martel's The Life of Pi

For more information about the Man Booker Prize, please visit: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/