Irish writers Emma Donoghue and Paul Murray have been included on the Man Booker Prize longlist.
Donoghue is included for her novel Room while Murray is added for his well-received book Skippy Dies.
Peter Carey, who is one of only two authors to have won the prize twice, has been longlisted for his novel Parrot and Oliver in America. He previously won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 1985 his book Illywhacker was shortlisted for the prize and Theft: A Love Story was longlisted in 2006.
Other entrants for this year's prize include the hotly-tipped David Mitchell for his book The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet. Mitchell has previously been shortlisted twice before in 2001 for number9dream and in 2004 for CloudAtlas.
Two other longlist nominees have also made the Man Booker Prize shortlist previously.
Damon Galgut, who has been included on this year's longlist for his novel In a Strange Room was previously shortlisted in 2003 for The Good Doctor. Former Booker Prize judge Rose Tremain who is longlisted this year for Tresspass was previously shortlisted in 1989 for Restoration.
Meanwhile, Howard Jacobson, who has been long listed twice before for Kalooki Nights in 2006 and for Who's Sorry Now? in 2002 makes the 2010 longlist for The Finkler Question.
Other authors on the 2010 longlist include Alan Warner, Christos Tsiolkas, Lisa Moore, Helen Dunmore, Tom McCarthy and Andrea Levy.
A total of 138 books, 14 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ longlist of 13 books this year.
“Here are thirteen exceptional novels – books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors," said the chair of judges Andrew Motion.
"Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain.”
The 2010 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7th September. The winner of the Man Booker Prize will be revealed on Tuesday 12th October.
The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction will receive £50,000 and can look forward to greatly increased sales and worldwide recognition. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, will receive £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their shortlisted book.
Chaired by Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, the 2010 judges are Rosie Blau, literary editor of the Financial Times; Deborah Bull, 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.
The Booker Prize for Fiction was first awarded in 1969, and Man was announced as the sponsor of the prize in April 2002, with a five year extension agreed in 2006
The 2010 Man Booker Prize longlist includes:
Peter Carey Parrot and Oliver in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)
Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group – Headline Review)
Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)
Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)
Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
