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Hilary Mantel: I am 'disappointed but freed' by Booker decision

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Two time winner, previously a favourite to win with the third novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, says books ‘surf on the tide of the times’

Two-time Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel has said that she is “disappointed” but “freed” after not making this year’s shortlist, congratulating the six authors now in competition for the £50,000 prize.

 

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Mantel sounds a little ungracious in this article? She should at least *pretend* she'll be listening to the announcement of the winner...

This picture looks so much like a John Currin painting

This is obviously a bit pedantic, but the Booker wasn't 'previously only open to Commonwealth writers' before 2014; writers from Ireland (Republic) have always been eligible, and South African and Zimbabwean writers were also eligible even when they weren't in the Commonwealth.

The Mirror and The Light is brilliant and did not disappoint me.

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