... Hilary Mantel uma escritora de peso...

Hilary Mantel has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Bodies, the sequel to Wolf Hall, which won the prize in 2009.

Mantel is the first woman and the first living British author to win the prestigious literary prize twice. "This double accolade is uniquely deserved," said Sir Peter Stothard, chairman of the judges.

Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies is a book about Thomas Cromwell, an adviser to King Henry VIII, and charts the bloody downfall of Anne Boleyn. It is the second book in a trilogy.

The first one was Wolf Hall. A third installment, to be called The Mirror and the Light, will continue Cromwell's story until his execution in 1540.

Both Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies are superb books, exquisitely written and real page-turners. They are certainly not inaccessible; especially not when compared to other Booker nominees and, indeed, some prizewinners. Prizes are a bit daft, but very well done to her for such a terrific achievement. 

Em português Wolf Hall, ed. Civilização.

Tradução de Bring up the Bodies para breve.