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Hilary Mantel wins the 2009 Booker
Hilary Mantel has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for Wolf Hall, published by Fourth Estate. The 41st Booker Prize was presented at a ceremony in London today.
Mantel was considered the odd’s-on favourite, despite being up against former winners A.S. Byatt and J.M Coetzee. The Guardian quotes Jim Naughtie, the chair of this year’s five-person judging panel, as saying:
Our decision was based on the sheer bigness of the book, the boldness of its narrative and scene-setting, the gleam that there is in its detail.
Mantel was competing against Byatt, Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Simon Mawer, and Sarah Waters.
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