Hilary Mantel wins book prize:
LONDON - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, a tale of intrigue set during the reign of Henry VIII, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction yesterday. The 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. A Booker win all but guarantees a surge in sales. Last year's winner, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages.
Other finalists were Coetzee's Summertime, Byatt's The Children's Book, Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze, Simon Mawer's The Glass Room, and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger. The $80,000 prize is open to novels in English by writers from Britain, Ireland or the Commonwealth of former British colonies.
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