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| Mantel named Booker prize winner | Mantel named Booker prize winner |
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| Author Hilary Mantel has been named this year's Man Booker Prize winner for her historical novel Wolf Hall. | Author Hilary Mantel has been named this year's Man Booker Prize winner for her historical novel Wolf Hall. |
| Mantel, 57, beat five other shortlisted authors, including Sarah Waters and JM Coetzee with her book based on Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell. | Mantel, 57, beat five other shortlisted authors, including Sarah Waters and JM Coetzee with her book based on Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell. |
| Speaking on stage after he name was announced, Mantel said: "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air." | |
| The writer received the £50,000 prize at a ceremony at London's Guildhall. | The writer received the £50,000 prize at a ceremony at London's Guildhall. |
| Mantel, who was made CBE in 2006, saw her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, published in 1985. | |
| Its sequel, Vacant Possession, followed a year later. | |
| In 1989 she won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Fludd, then A Place of Greater Safety scooped the Sunday Express Book Of The Year award in 1993. | |
| Three years later Mantel was presented with the Hawthornden Prize for An Experiment in Love. | |
| She was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction, both in 2006, for the novel Beyond Black. | |
| Mantel's other works include Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), A Change of Climate (1994) and Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (2003). | |
| Chairman of judges James Naughtie was joined on the judging panel by biographer and critic Lucasta Miller; Michael Prodger, literary editor of the Sunday Telegraph; Professor John Mullan, academic, journalist and broadcaster; and Sue Perkins, comedian, journalist and broadcaster. | |
| The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. |