London, Oct 7
Hilary Mantel, author of the historic novel Wolf Hall, Tuesday received the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction.
The 50,000-pound ($80,000) prize was awarded for her much-praised novel about Thomas Cromwell's rise to prominence in the Tudor court of the 1520s, the Booker prize website said.
"Wolf Hall ... peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage," the committee said in a press release.
Mantel's book was chosen from a shortlist of six titles that included works by AS Byatt, JM Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters.