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
The Woman Who Waited The Woman Who Waited The Woman Who Waited () is a 2004 novel by the French writer Andreï Makine. It is set in the 1970s and tells the story of a 26-year-old man who falls in love with a woman who still is faithful to her fiancé who went missing in World War II. Elena Seymenliyska of "The Guardian" called the novel "achingly beautiful" and described it as "rich in symbolism and swathed in enigmatic lyricism". "The New York Times"' Andrey Slivka called it "an entertaining story about love, the onset of maturity, the moral complications of cultural dissidence and