Man Booker 2010 longlist

Two Australian authors, Peter Carey and Christos Tsiolkas, have been included in the 2010 Man Booker Prize longlist.

The full longlist is:

Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America

Emma Donoghue, Room

Helen Dunmore, The Betrayal

Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

Andrea Levy, The Long Song

Tom McCarthy, C

David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Lisa Moore, February

Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

Rose Tremain, Trespass

Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap

Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky

The shortlist will be announced on September 7, and the winner will be announced on October 12.