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
Andrei Dmitriev (writer) the Russian journals Znamya, Novy Mir, and Druzhba Narodov. Dmitriev also writes filmscripts. His novel "The Peasant and the Teenager" was awarded the 2012 Russian Booker Prize. Andrei Dmitriev (writer) Andrei Viktorovich Dmitriev (; born 7 May 1956) is a Russian novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 2012 Russian Booker Prize for his novel "The Peasant and the Teenager". Dmitriev was born in Leningrad in 1956. His first short stories were published in the 1980s. He first became known in Russian literary circles for his novellas "Voskoboev and Elizaveta" (1992) and "The Turn of the River" (1995).