Man Booker Prize Announced

Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Finkler Question. Announcing the winner, Andrew Motion said that Jacobson's novel
"is a marvellous book: very funny, of course, but also very clever, very sad and very subtle. It is all that it seems to be and much more than it seems to be. A completely worthy winner of this great prize. Jacobson stated"I have been wanting to win the Booker prize from the start. I don't think I'm alone in that, it's such a fantastic prize. It was beginning to look like I was the novelist that never ever won the Booker prize. I have been increasingly talked about as underrated and I'm so sick of being described as the underrated Howard Jacobson. So the thought that's gone forever, is wonderful."
This year's Man Booker Prize shortlist also included Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, Room by Emma Donoghue, In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut, The Long Song by Andrea Levy and C by Tom McCarthy.