Two Irish writers make Booker longlist

TWO Irish authors are among the 13 to have made the “Man Booker dozen” longlist out of a total of 138 books.

They are Dubliner Emma Donoghue, 40, author of Room, and Paul Murray, 35, author of Skippy Dies.

In Room, the protagonists are Ma and her five-year-old son, Jack who has never left the room he was born and brought up in. It was inspired by the stories of Elizabeth Fritzl and Natascha Kampusch, two Austrian women held prisoner for many years.