2012 Man Booker Prize overly populist. Whether or not as a response to this, the 2012 jury strongly emphasised the value of literary quality and linguistic innovation as criteria for inclusion. The winner was Hilary Mantel, an early favourite, for her book "Bring Up the Bodies", the sequel to her novel "Wolf Hall", which won the award in 2009. Mantel became the first woman, and the first Briton, to win the prize twice. A strong challenger to Mantel was established writer Will Self, who was nominated for the first time. Other shortlisters included second-time nominee Tan Twan Eng, Deborah Levy, who returned from a
Russian Little Booker Prize tendencies in Russia's literary life. Up until 2000 Russian Little Booker was awarded at the Russian Booker prize ceremonies. In 2001 it was awarded at the Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow. The prize award was 4000 GBP. The Public Board of the Little Booker included: 1. Nikolai Aleksandrov ("Ekho Moskvy" radio station) 2. Aleksandr Gavrilov ("Ekslibris" newspaper) 3. Aleksandr Ivanov 4. Dmitri Prigov 5. Natalia Perova ("Glas" magazine) Ilia Kukulin served as consultant. 1992 - Magazines "Solo" (Moscow) and "Vestnik novoi literatury" (Sankt-Peterburg) for the best magazine of literary debuts 1993 - Victor Pelevin ("Sinii fonar") for the year's best