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Booker prize 2012

October 2019

  • Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo jointly awarded Booker Prize – video

    Booker Prize judges rebel against rules and split the prestigious literary award between Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo

January 2014

  • Hilary Mantel 
Festival - Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel fans must wait for Tudor saga finale as author switches genre

    Corrupt manipulator Thomas Cromwell takes back seat as novelist tackles Margaret Thatcher in collection of short stories

December 2012

  • Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker  for 'Wolf Hall'

    Book club
    Hilary Mantel: how I came to write Wolf Hall

    Hilary Mantel: 'It wasn't that I wanted to rehabilitate him. I do not run a Priory clinic for the dead'

November 2012

  • Women in publishing 2012

    EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012

  • Robert MacFarlane

    Booker prize appoints Robert Macfarlane to chair 2013 judges

  • Rose Tremain

    Author, author
    Rose Tremain: The art of not winning literary prizes

  • Penguin Random House

    Books blog
    Penguin merger minuses could be pluses for indies

  • hand holding wine glass

    Hilary Mantel's short story: The Long QT

    An exclusive short story by the winner of the Man Booker 2012 for Bring Up the Bodies
  • <Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex> After Hans Holbein the Younger

    Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell is the man for this season

    Thomas Penn
    Thomas Penn: Hilary Mantel has created a Cromwell who will replace Thomas More in the public imagination
  • Deborah Orr

    For a moment I really thought my husband had won the Booker. But no!

    Deborah Orr

    Deborah Orr: One starts out pleased to be long-listed for the prize, and ends up feeling anything other than winning is failure

  • In praise of ...
    In praise of … Self-consciousness

    Editorial: The judges were never going to garland some high modernist yarn about madness and the first world war
  • ‘Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious’ … Mantel.

    Hilary Mantel: 'If I'm suffering, I can make that pay'

    Her second Booker prize has established her as one of the greatest living writers of historical fiction. She talks about the pressure of winning a third – and the dangers of getting lost in the past

  • The 2012 Man Booker prize shortlistees.

    Books blog
    The Booker prize judges let us down

    Jacques Testard: Another prize for Hilary Mantel was unnecessary, and a missed opportunity to invigorate the books world

  • Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker prize for second time

    Bring Up the Bodies is first sequel to triumph in prize's 43-year history, and author is first woman and first Briton to win twice

  • Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel's second Booker winner is just the latest in a brilliant catalogue

    After reading her masterful Bring Up the Bodies, no one can argue that historical fiction is irrelevant to our time

  • Extract: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

    Read the opening of the 2012 Man Booker prize winner

  • The six Mann Booker authors

    The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels

    The Man Booker prize is awarded on Tuesday. Ahead of the judges' decision, the six hopeful authors introduce their shortlisted novels
  • William Hazlitt

    Robert McCrum on books
    Are professional book reviewers better than amateurs?

    Robert McCrum: Man Booker chairman Peter Stothard's comment that "not everyone's opinion is worth the same" is worth taking seriously

September 2012

  • Man Booker prize nominees 2012

    The Booker shortlist at the best price

  • Deborah Levy

    Books blog
    Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism

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