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2013 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Claire Vaye Watkins' Battleborn
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds
  • Pulitzer Prize
    • Winner: April
  • Best Translated Book Award
    • Winner: May
  • PEN/Malamud Award
    • Winner: May
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: June
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: June
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: October
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: October
  • Giller Prize
    • Shadow Winner: November
    • Winner: November
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: November
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2012 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision
  • The Story Prize
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Teju Cole: Open City
  • Pulitzer Prize
    • Winner: No award given
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Jon McGregor: Even the Dogs
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mo Yan
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2011 Book Awards

  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
  • PEN/Malamud Award
    • Winner: Edith Pearlman
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Tomas Tranströmer
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
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2010 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Sherman Alexie's War Dances
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brigid Pasulka's A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • PEN/Malamud Award
    • Winner: Nam Le & Edward P. Jones
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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2009 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Roberto Bolano's 2666
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Michael Dahlie's A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
  • Best Translated Book Award
    • Winner: Attila Bartis: Tranquility
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Michael Thomas's Man Gone Down
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Herta Müller
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

The 2010 Man Booker Prize Winner

Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question.  I loved Galgut’s In a Strange Room, but I’m very happy that The Finkler Question won.

This year was a good year for me.  Of the four shortlisters I read, I would have been happy had In a Strange Room, The Finkler Question, or C won.  Had Parrot and Olivier in America won, I would have at least said they gave it to a good writer, even if I didn’t particularly enjoy the book.

3 comments to The 2010 Man Booker Prize Winner

  • Lee Monks

    I echo those thoughts: Galgut’s was the best of the books on there but I’m more than happy for Jacobson to take the award.

  • An interesting note that shows how much I enjoyed both the Jacobson and the Galgut (my first book, in each case) is that after finishing the book I immediately went out and bought some of their backlists. Now, if I knew how to fit the books into my reading . . .

  • I agree wholeheartedly. I’m so pleased FINKLER won.I haven’t read Galgut’s book yet but I want to and I’m heartened to hear you enjoyed it.

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