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Article: Hilary Mantel wins Booker prize for fiction.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday.
Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" scooped the en50,000 ($80,000) prize. Mantel's novel charts the upheaval caused by the king's desire to marry Anne Boleyn, as seen through the eyes of royal adviser Thomas Cromwell.
Mantel's novel beat stiff competition from a shortlist that included previous Booker winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee.
Mantel told a London audience that if winning the Booker Prize was like being in a train crash, "at this moment I am happily flying through the air."
The chairman of the Booker prize ...