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Booker prize-winning author Hilary Mantel calls Kate Middleton’s image ‘plastic’
By Mark Brown, The Guardian Award-winning novelist’s comments about ‘plastic’ Duchess of Cambridge spark spasm of press fury Hilary Mantel has woken up to something of a firestorm after a long speech she recently made about the royal family and society’s relationship with them was interpreted as an “astonishing and venomous…
Novelist Hilary Mantel makes history with second Booker Prize
Novelist Hilary Mantel on Tuesday made literary history by becoming the first woman and the first British author to be a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction. Mantel picked up the prize, one of the highest profile awards in English-language literature, for “Bring up the Bodies,” part…
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