The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.

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2009 Winner

On October 6, 2009, Hilary Mantel was named this year's recipient of The Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her 12th and most recent novel, WOLF HALL. Selected from a shortlist of five other titles including THE CHILDREN'S BOOK by A.S. Byatt, THE QUICKENING MAZE by Adam Foulds and SUMMERTIME by J. M. Coetzee, WOLF HALL is an historical novel set in Tudor England that chronicles Henry VIII's rise to power.

2009 Shortlist

WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantell (Henry Holt / Fourth Estate)

THE CHILDREN'S BOOK by A. S. Byatt (Knopf / Chatto & Windus)

SUMMERTIME by J. M. Coetzee (Viking / Harvill Secker)

THE QUICKENING MAZE by Adam Foulds (Jonathan Cape)

THE GLASS ROOM by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

THE LITTLE STRANGER by Sarah Waters (Riverhead / Virago)