LONDON, July 27 (UPI) -- Peter Carey's "Parrot and Olivier in America" and Emma Donoghue's "Room" were among the nominees announced in London for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

The long list for the literary award was unveiled Tuesday.

It also includes Helen Dunmore's "The Betrayal," Damon Galgut's "In a Strange Room," Howard Jacobson's "The Finkler Question," Andrea Levy's "The Long Song," Tom McCarthy's "C," David Mitchell's "The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet," Lisa Moore's "February," Paul Murray's "Skippy Dies," Rose Tremain's "Trespass," Christos Tsiolkas' "The Slap" and Alan Warner's "The Stars in the Bright Sky."

"Here are 13 exceptional novels -- books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. 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 chair of judges, Andrew Motion, said in a statement on the Man Booker Prize Web site.

Carey is one of only two authors to have won the prize twice -- in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda" and 2001 for "True History of the Kelly Gang." In 1985 his book "Illywhacker" was short-listed for the prize and "Theft: A Love Story" was long-listed in 2006, the Web site said.

The 2010 short list is to be announced Sept. 7.