Hilary Mantel

Award-winning British author Hilary Mantel has died at the age of 70, her publisher said on Twitter on Friday.

Indian-American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri lost out on the Man Booker Prize to Eleanor Catton, who has become the youngest writer to win the prize.

Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo on Tuesday became the first black African woman to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, for her tale of a 10-year-old girl who escapes poverty at home only to find new problems in the United States.

British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time on 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.

Former winner Hilary Mantel and radical contemporary author Will Self have both made the shortlist for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction, it was announced on Tuesday. The six-person list included authors from Britain, India and Malaysia. The winner, due to be announced at London's Guildhall on October 16, receives £50,000 ($80,00...

British author Hilary Mantel has won this year's Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Wolf Hall.

Award-winning British author Hilary Mantel has died at the age of 70, her publisher said on Twitter on Friday.

Indian-American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri lost out on the Man Booker Prize to Eleanor Catton, who has become the youngest writer to win the prize.

Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo on Tuesday became the first black African woman to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, for her tale of a 10-year-old girl who escapes poverty at home only to find new problems in the United States.

British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time on 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.

Former winner Hilary Mantel and radical contemporary author Will Self have both made the shortlist for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction, it was announced on Tuesday. The six-person list included authors from Britain, India and Malaysia. The winner, due to be announced at London's Guildhall on October 16, receives £50,000 ($80,00...

British author Hilary Mantel has won this year's Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Wolf Hall.