Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize with her novel Bring Up The Bodies, becoming the first British author to win twice.
The bookie’s favourite picked up the prestigious award – and £50,000 ($80,500) in prize money – at a ceremony in Central London.
Accepting the prize, she joked: “You wait 20 years for a Booker to come along, and then two come at once!”.
“Now I have to go away and write the third part of this trilogy. Believe me I have no expectations I will be standing here again!”
Bring Up The Bodies, Mantel’s 13th novel, is the sequel to 2009’s Wolf Hall, for which she also won the Booker. Set in 1535, it traces the efforts of Thomas Cromwell, chief Minister to Henry VIII, to keep the peace during the the final days of Anne Boleyn.
Mantel fought off competition from Will Self, who had also been a strong favourite in the build up to the award with Umbrella, Tan Twan Eng for The Garden of Evening Mists, Deborah Levy for Swimming Home, Jeet Thayil for Narcopolis and Alison Moore who was shortlisted with her debut novel The Lighthouse. More.
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The Brits seem to be cleaning up this year - The Queen`s Diamond Jubilee, an enormously succesful Olympics and Paralympics, Andy Murray won the US Open, Ken Follett is all over it with "Winter of the World", sequel to "Fall of Giants" in what's been an amazing trilogy to date, and the TV mini-series of his book "World without End", follow-up to "Pillars of the Earth", airing this week on US television.
After "50 Shades of Grey", and now this from Hilary ----------- Proud to be British!!!
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http://www.boekvertalers.nl/2012/10/10/in-writers-words-hilary-mantel-on-translation/
(original English article and Dutch translation on that page)
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http://www.boekvertalers.nl/2012/10/10/in-writers-words-hilary-mantel-on-translation/
(original English article and Dutch translation on that page)
and a piece (in English) by her Dutch translator:
http://www.boekvertalers.nl/2012/10/09/notes-of-a-translator/
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