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Hilary Mantel Wins Her Second Booker

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Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens (and the rest of the selection committee) awarded the 2012 Man Booker prize to Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to the Booker-winning Wolf Hall.  Mantel is the first British writer to win two Bookers, but listen, this isn’t over — there’s still a third book to come. How do they say “threepeat” in the U.K.?

Hilary Mantel Wins Her Second Booker