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 Soviet life as it was lived in a northern corner of the empire", and wrote that it "manages to treat its themes in a beautifully readable manner". "Publishers Weekly" wrote that Makine "transforms a very simple premise into a richly textured story of love and loss". The book received the 2005 Prince Pierre Literary Prize. 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