LONDON Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey is a finalist again for one of literatures most prestigious and contentious awards.
The Australian writers "Parrot and Olivier in America" is one of six contenders announced Tuesday for the 50,000-pound $77,000 fiction award.
Hes joined by Irish writer Emma Donoghue for "Room," the story of a boy and his mother held captive in a garden shed.
The other finalists are Damon Galgut, Howard Jacobson, Andrea Levy and Tom McCarthy.
The Booker is open to writers from Britain, Ireland or the Commonwealth of former British colonies.
The winner will be announced Oct. 12.
The Booker was founded in 1969 and is officially called the Man Booker Prize after its sponsor, financial services conglomerate Man Group PLC.
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