Hilary Mantel wins Booker prize
October 7th, 2009 - 7:27 am ICT by IANSLondon, Oct 7 (DPA) Hilary Mantel, author of the historic novel Wolf Hall, Tuesday received the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction.
The 50,000-pound ($80,000) prize was awarded for her much-praised novel about Thomas Cromwell’s rise to prominence in the Tudor court of the 1520s, the Booker prize website said.
“Wolf Hall … peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage,” the committee said in a press release.
Mantel’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six titles that included works by AS Byatt, JM Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters.
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