2012 Man Booker Prize bookmakers had Self at slightly better odds than Mantel, with the others somewhat behind. On 16 October, shortly after 21:40, jury chair Peter Stothard announced that the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize was Hilary Mantel for her "Bring Up the Bodies". By winning, Mantel became the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, as well as the first British author to do so (South African J. M. Coetzee and Australian Peter Carey have won the award twice each). Mantel joked that "[y]ou wait 20 years for a Booker Prize; two come along at once". She added: "I
2012 Man Booker Prize 2007 Booker Prize. Tan himself writes that, like Aritomo does in his gardening, he tries to apply the principle of "shakkei" — the art of borrowed scenery — to his writing. "We borrow not only from our own memories," he writes, "but also from the memories of the people around us." The jury called the novel "sternly paced to match its subject", and compared its beauty to "those of slowly clashing icebergs". Taking place in a summer house in Southern France, "Swimming Home" is "a haunting exploration of loss and longing." In the summer of 1994, poet Joe Jacobs vacations