Hilary Mantel won her second Booker Prize in three years for BRINGING UP THE BODIES. On accepting the prize, she said, “Well, I don’t know. You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize; two come along at once.” She is both the first woman and the first British person to win the award twice (and just the third two-time winner, joining Peter Carey and J.M. Coetzee). “I have to do something very difficult right now,” Mantel said. “I have to go away and write the third part of the trilogy. I assure you I have no expectations that I will be […]
