Hilary Mantel Wins Man’s Booker for Historical Tale
British novelist Hilary Mantel has won this year’s Man Booker prize for her gripping16th century tale titled ‘Wolf Hall’. This year’s short list didn’t have an India nominee.
Mantel, 57, received 50,000 pounds as prize money last night, a prize that is considered as one of the English-speaking world’s most prestigious literary honour.
Needless to add, Indian writers such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Aravind Adiga and Arundhati Roy have earlier won the prize. However, this year’s shortlist did not feature any Indian.
Other writers making it to the short list this year included A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters.
‘Wolf Hall’ is set in the 1520s and tells the story of ‘Thomas Cromwell’s rise to prominence in the Tudor court.
