US critics hail Mantel's 'Wolf Hall'
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March 13, 2010, Saturday
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HILARY Mantel's novel "Wolf Hall," winner last year of the Man Booker Prize in London, was honored on Thursday night in the United States.
The novel, set in the age of King Henry VIII, won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for fiction. It's a sympathetic narrative of royal adviser Thomas Cromwell.
Mantel did not attend the ceremony but issued a statement saying that she was working on a sequel and that the award is "the best possible encouragement."
Other awards given included Richard Holmes' highly regarded study of the crossed stars of science and poetry, "The Age of Wonder," which received the general non-fiction award. Blake Bailey's "Cheever: A Life," a thorough account of the late novelist John Cheever, won for biography, and longtime editor Diana Athill's "Somewhere Towards the End," an atheist's spirited reflection on old age, was the winner for autobiography.
Rae Armantrout's "Versed" was cited for poetry, while the criticism prize went to Eula Biss' essays "Notes from No Man's Land."
The novel, set in the age of King Henry VIII, won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for fiction. It's a sympathetic narrative of royal adviser Thomas Cromwell.
Mantel did not attend the ceremony but issued a statement saying that she was working on a sequel and that the award is "the best possible encouragement."
Other awards given included Richard Holmes' highly regarded study of the crossed stars of science and poetry, "The Age of Wonder," which received the general non-fiction award. Blake Bailey's "Cheever: A Life," a thorough account of the late novelist John Cheever, won for biography, and longtime editor Diana Athill's "Somewhere Towards the End," an atheist's spirited reflection on old age, was the winner for autobiography.
Rae Armantrout's "Versed" was cited for poetry, while the criticism prize went to Eula Biss' essays "Notes from No Man's Land."
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