Mantel's win also makes her the first person in Man Booker history to win the prize for a direct sequel.

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The leader of this "Scotia Nostra" was Douglas Gordon - who was the first of them to win the Turner Prize, in 1996.

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Abdus Salam, the first Muslim scientist to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, reflected upon this parting of ways.

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Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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It was there, in 1975, that he became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, an award given to newspaper writers.

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Last year, PJ Harvey became the first act to win the Mercury Prize twice, for her album Let England Shake, after previously winning in 2001.

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