Tuesday 28 July 2009

MAN BOOKER LONGLIST 2009

Irish interest on the Man Booker Dozen list - always fun! William Trevor and Colm Tóibín have both been longlisted with their novels Love and Summer and Brooklyn respectively. Go n-éirí an bóthar leo.

Addendum: Eimear has pointed out that Ed O'Loughlin is also Irish. Great! Three Irish writers in the dozen. Not bad at all!

More here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't that Ed O'Loughlin Irish too? His book looks interesting. Haven't read any of them, sadly.

Group 8 said...

Gosh, I dunno. I was wowed by the big names. I'll go checkie.

Whoopsie - why yes he is!!

Rachel Fenton said...

My reading list just gets bigger and bigger. My money's on William Trevor.

Group 8 said...

I'm going to back Colm. I think he's a fabulous writer and a great raconteur too.
I'll be hung, drawn and quartered for admitting this, but I'm not a huge fan of Trevor...