{"id":15527,"date":"2012-10-12T17:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-author-mantel-eyes-booker-history-self-a-contender\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:50:22","slug":"update-1-author-mantel-eyes-booker-history-self-a-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-author-mantel-eyes-booker-history-self-a-contender\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Author Mantel eyes Booker history, Self a contender"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(adds latest odds from Ladbrokes)<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Mike Collett-White<\/p>\n

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LONDON<\/span> Oct 12 (Reuters) – Hilary Mantel could become the
\nfirst woman to win the coveted Man Booker Prize for fiction
\ntwice with her historical novel “Bring Up the Bodies”, the
\nbookmakers’ favourite alongside Will Self’s “Umbrella”.<\/p>\n

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The annual literary award to an author from the
\nCommonwealth, Zimbabwe or Ireland will be handed out at a glitzy
\ndinner in London on Tuesday, and the build-up this year has been
\ndominated by 60-year-old Mantel.<\/p>\n

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She won the Booker in 2009 with “Wolf Hall”, her acclaimed
\n650-page historical novel charting Thomas Cromwell’s rise to
\npower in King Henry VIII’s court, and is in contention again for
\nthe sequel.<\/p>\n

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Were she to win, she would become not only the first female
\nthe “do the double” but also the first British writer. South
\nAfrica-born J.M. Coetzee and Australian Peter Carey have won the
\nprize twice.<\/p>\n

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“There has been discussion, I know, about the pros and cons
\nof Mantel advancing so far in the prize again so soon,” said
\nPeter Stothard, chair of the Man Booker judging panel and editor
\nof the Times Literary Supplement.<\/p>\n

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“The judges noted Mantel’s even greater mastery of method
\nnow,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Mantel could be back in the frame yet again in 2015, when
\nthe third and final instalment of her Cromwell trilogy, “The
\nMirror and the Light”, is due to hit the shelves.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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