One of the most celebrated British novelists has launched a scathing attack on Kate Middleton, describing her a "shop-window mannequin" with a "plastic smile". Hilary Mantel, 60-year-old double Booker prize winning author, launched the unusually withering public attack on the 31-year-old wife of second-in-line to the British throne Prince William and said the impression of future queen was "jointed doll on which rags are hung". ...
07:37 PM, Feb 19, 2013
I love The Tudor Era in British History. There is so much that it offers in terms of plots, narratives and what actually took place. Henry VIII has always been a personality that has been elusive in history. Writers and biographers have tried hard to document everything about him and his six wives, and most of it has been brilliant stuff. To add to this Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel...
12:37 PM, Oct 19, 2012
London: British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time Tuesday with her blood-soaked Tudor saga 'Bring Up the Bodies,' which the head of the judging panel said had "rewritten the book" on historical fiction. Mantel, who took the 50,000 pound ($82,000) award in 2009 for 'Wolf Hall,' is the first British author, and the first woman, to achieve a Booker double. 'Bring Up the...
03:07 AM, Oct 17, 2012
London: Judges are choosing the winner of Britain's most prestigious literary trophy from a shortlist that includes novels set in the court of King Henry VIII and the opium dens of Mumbai. Hilary Mantel is favored to win the 50,000 pound ($82,000) Booker Prize with "Bring Up the Bodies," a tale of Tudor treachery which follows the fates of the king's right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell, and the monarch's second wife,...
04:56 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Man Booker Prize winner for 2012 will be announced today, as some are calling it "the book world's equivalent of Oscars night". India's Jeet Thayil is also in the running for his debut book Narcopolis, a prize worth 50,000 pounds. Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for...
11:14 AM, Oct 16, 2012
London: Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2012 announced today. Apart from 53-year-old Kerala-born Thayil, authors on the shortlist are Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Will Self and Tan Twan Eng. The winner will be announced on October 16 at Londons Guildhall during a...
05:37 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Wendy Doniger's
The Hindus: An Alternative History topped the non-fiction section. ...
03:53 PM, Oct 16, 2009
Mantel's novel beat stiff competition from AS Byatt and JM Coetzee. ...
02:41 AM, Oct 07, 2009
But the punter's favourite is Hilary Mantel's novel about Thomas Cromwell. ...
09:24 PM, Oct 04, 2009
