British novelist Hilary Mantel wins prestigious Booker Prize for her Wolf Hall
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by admin in Buzz
British novelist, Hilary Mantel wins 2009 Man Booker Prize for her fiction work Wolf Hall. She won the Booker beating the likes of JM Coetzee and AS Byatt.
Wolf Hall is set in the 1500s and is a historical depict of a rutheless person Thomas Cromwell and his rise in the court of King Henry VIII. Considered one of the literary world’s prestigious recognition, the Booker Prize will award the work that is chosen as bookmaker’s favorite. The 57-year-old novelist, Hilary Mantel had actually spent 5 years writing the Wolf Hall. Mantel is presently working on a sequel.
The award wins Mantel not just 50,000 pounds ($80,000)in money but a guaranteed worldwide readership and upsurge in her book sales. Last year’s Booker Winner Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger was sold about half a million copies and was translated into 30 world languages
