Hilary Mantel Wins Her Second Booker Prize

Announced moments ago at a ceremony in London's medieval Guildhall, the Man Booker winner for 2012 is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies [Kindle], the sequel to her Booker winning Wolf Hall. She is the first woman and the first British author to win two Bookers.

The other finalists were:

Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists [Kindle]

Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

Alison Moore, The Lighthouse [Kindle]

Will Self, Umbrella

Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis [Kindle]

The judges were Dinah Birch, Amanda Foreman, Dan Stevens, Bharat Tandon, and chair Peter Stothard.

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Bodies struck me as even better than Wolf, especially the wonderful execution sequence at the end where we are witnessing every chilling detail thrrough Cromwell's eyes.

Posted by: Elliott Mackle | October 17, 2012 at 01:38 AM

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