Hilary Mantel won the 2009 Man Booker Prize with which novel?
Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( ; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel "Wolf Hall", a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel "Bring Up the Bodies", the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G.
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