2009 Man Booker Prize

The 2009 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 6 October 2009.[1] The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 2 August,[2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 8 September.[3][4] The Prize was awarded to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall.[5][6]

Judging panel

Nominees (Shortlist)
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
A. S. Byatt The Children's Book Novel UK Random House, Chatto and Windus
J. M. Coetzee Summertime Novel South Africa, Australia Random House, Harvill Secker
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze Novel UK Random House, Jonathan Cape
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Novel UK HarperCollins, Fourth Estate
Simon Mawer The Glass Room Novel UK Little, Brown
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Novel UK Little, Brown, Virago

Nominees (Longlist)
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
A. S. Byatt The Children's Book Novel UK Random House, Chatto and Windus
William Trevor Love and Summer Novel Ireland Viking
J. M. Coetzee Summertime Novel South Africa, Australia Random House, Harvill Secker
James Lever Me Cheeta Novel Fourth Estate
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze Novel UK Random House, Jonathan Cape
Sarah Hall How to Paint a Dead Man Novel UK Faber
Samantha Harvey The Wilderness Novel UK Jonathan Cape
James Scudamore Heliopolis Novel UK Harvill Secker
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Novel UK HarperCollins, Fourth Estate
Colm Tóibín Brooklyn Novel Ireland Viking
Simon Mawer The Glass Room Novel UK Little, Brown
Ed O'Loughlin Not Untrue and Not Unkind Novel Ireland, Canada Penguin
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Novel UK Little, Brown, Virago

References
  1. "Mantel named Booker Prize winner". BBC News. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  2. "Eyes on the prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  3. "Shortlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction". Retrieved 8 September 2009.
  4. "The 2009 Man Booker shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
  5. "Booker prize 2011: Julian Barnes triumphs at last". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  6. "The Man Booker Prize 2011- The Winner".
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