Hilary Mantel And Will Self Fight It Out For Another Literary Prize

Wednesday 19th June

Hilary Mantel And Will Self Fight It Out For Another Literary Prize

Posted at 8:19AM Thursday 07 Feb 2013

Hilary Mantel and Will Self will battle it out for another literary prize six months after Mantel beat Self to the Man Booker Prize.

The pair are shortlisted in the literature category at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards along with Kerry Hudson's debut novel Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma.

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