Man Booker Judges 2010 announced

Panel to join Andrew Motion

9 December 2009

The judging panel for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is announced today, Wednesday 9 December 2009.

The judges are Rosie Blau, Literary Editor of the Financial Times; Deborah Bull, formerly a dancer, now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House as well as a writer and broadcaster; Tom Sutcliffe, journalist, broadcaster and author and Frances Wilson, biographer and critic.

Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, was announced as Chair of the Judges in November.

Ion Trewin, Literary Director of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, comments, ‘In choosing the judges we strive for imagination, enthusiasm, devotion to duty and integrity. I feel confident that the 2010 team not only ticks all these boxes but, from what promises to be another high quality year for fiction, will deliver a winning choice worthy of what we expect from the award of the Man Booker Prize.'

The winner of the 2009 prize, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, was chosen from 132 entries. It has now sold over 150,000 copies in the UK and the rights have been sold for publication in 23 languages.

The longlist, ‘The Man Booker Dozen' - the 12 (or 13) titles under serious consideration for the prize - will be announced in late July 2010 and a shortlist of six books will be announced in early September 2010. The Man Booker Prize 2010 winner announcement will be broadcast by the BBC from London's Guildhall at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 12 October 2010.

For more information about this year's judges see the full press release in our media centre.

 

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