British author Mantel wins Booker PrizeBritish author Hilary Mantel Hilary Mary Mantel CBE (born 6 July 1952) is an English novelist. She is the author of nine acclaimed novels, a short story collection and a memoir, and was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006. was named winner of the prestigious Booker Prize Booker Prize, an annual prize of £50,000 (originally £20,000) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish, or Commonwealth writer. Great Britain's premier literary award, it has been underwritten since 1969 by the British food-distribution company for fiction Tuesday Tuesday: see week. , beating the likes of J.M. Coetzee and A.S. Byatt. Mantel's "Wolf Hall", a historical novel about English king Henry VIII's advisor Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Cromwell, was named winner at a ceremony at London's Guildhall. It was the bookmakers' favourite to win. Accepting the prize, Mantel said: "I can tell you that at this moment, I'm happily flying through the air." One of the literary world's most prestigious awards, the annual Booker Prize goes to the best work of fiction by an author from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. 
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