Hilary Mantel Takes Home Her Second Booker Prize

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Bring Up the Bodies author Hilary Mantel, Ladbrokes's 6/4 favorite for this year's award, has won her second Man Booker Prize in three years.
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The Booker’s Dozen: The 2012 Booker Longlist

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With the unveiling of the Booker Prize longlist, the 2012 literary Prize season is officially underway.
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Worlds Beyond Your Ken: A Guide to the Nebula Awards

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The six novels nominated for this year’s Nebula Awards run from clanking steampunk fantasy from a first-timer Genevieve Valentine to heady and otherworldly linguistic theorizing courtesy of China Miéville—wonders await.
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Your Guide to the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist

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Umberto Eco’s fifth novel, The Prague Cemetery is the headline choice for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the winner of which is due to be announced on May 14.
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2012: The Year With No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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For the first time since A River Runs Through It failed to win in 1977, no award was given in the Fiction category.
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On Spinach and the National Book Awards

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I want to live in a world – and I believe we're closer than we think – where “the reading public” consumes, likes, and engages with many different kinds of literary nourishment; and where writers, teachers, and critics trust and even expect readers to do so.
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