Australia, Oct 17: Hilary Mantel Wins the Man Booker Prize 2012 for her book Bring Up the Bodies, a tale of Tudor treachery that follows the fates of the king's right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell, and the monarch's second wife, Anne Boleyn.
It is the second book in a planned trilogy and a sequel to Wolf Hall, for which Mantel won the Booker in 2009.
Mantel became the first British author to win the Booker twice, joining double winners Peter Carey of Australia and JM Coetzee of South Africa.
The chairman of the Booker judges, Sir Peter Stothard, called Mantel "the greatest modern English prose writer" working today, and said she had "rewritten the book on writing historical fiction".
"We are very proud to be reading English at the time she is writing. I don't think I've read any English novelist in recent years who has such complete control over the way she uses prose to do what she wants to do, like a singer or a pianist," Stothard said.
