Mantel is the first woman and the first living British author to win the prestigious literary prize twice.
BBC: Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies
Bring up the Bodies will be shorter than the 672-page Wolf Hall, Mantel added.
Mantel knows what to select, how to make her scenes vivid, how to kindle her characters.
Mantel beat off competition from James Meek's The Heart Broke In and Stephen May's Life!
Award-winning author Hilary Mantel has begun writing a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
Mantel's win also makes her the first person in Man Booker history to win the prize for a direct sequel.
BBC: Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies
Mantel's literary agent, Bill Hamilton, said Tuesday the author had no comment on the controversy over her lecture.
Mantel's literary agent, Bill Hamilton, said Tuesday that she had no comment on the controversy over her lecture.
Mantel said her speech had clearly been addressing a perception of Catherine that had been created in the media.
The most predictable inclusion is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, a worthy sequel to the Booker-winning Wolf Hall.
In her lecture, Mantel described how Catherine's public image was first defined by her clothes, and then her pregnancy.
Prime Minister David Cameron had said Mantel was "completely wrong" about her comments.
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Mantel is the third author to win the prize twice, alongside South-African-born J.
Mantel was announced as the winner at London's Guildhall on Tuesday night.
BBC: Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies
When she should have been cementing her position as the world's fastest woman, Robinson watched other sprinters assume her mantel.
Hilary Mantel, James Meek, Stephen May and Joff Winterhart have been shortlisted for best novel in the Costa Book Awards.
The book was previously shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
Two-time Booker winner Hilary Mantel will be honoured once more next month at the 2013 Oxford Literary Festival, organisers have announced.
Booker and Costa-prize winner Hilary Mantel is in the running for another literary award for her best-selling Bring Up The Bodies.
If anything, Mantel is even less sentimental in this novel than in the last in her appraisal of Henry and Cromwell.
Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has defended her comments about the Duchess of Cambridge, saying "I have absolutely nothing to apologise for".
Mantel's lecture, organised by London Review of Books, was titled Undressing Anne Boleyn and was on the topic of royal women.
The judges' discussion, which lasted around an hour, had considered that Mantel had already won the Booker but ultimately disregarded it.
"Long before Kate's big news was announced, the tabloids wanted to look inside her to see if she was pregnant, " Mantel said.
The Palace and Kate have kept a dignified silence over Mantel's rant.
Tabloids including The Sun and the Daily Mail have branded Mantel chauvinist, and of being fat, barren and jealous of the pregnant princess.
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Winterhart is up against Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, as well as Stephen May's Life!
Mantel, whose latest books are set in the Tudor court, is lucky she is not a character in one of her own books.
Just days after the sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall was announced, the author has revealed plans for a third instalment.
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