Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize 2012. It is the sequel to her prizewinning book Wolf Hall, set in Tudor England and focuses on the fall of Anne Boleyn.
The Chinesse novelist, Mo Yan, has won the Nobel prize in literature 2012. He is the first ever Chinese literature Nobel laureate.
The Hans Christian Andersen Prize Winner is Chilean author Isabel Allende. This Danish literature award is given to a writer whose works compare with those of Andersen, who lived 1805 - 1875 and wrote about 160 fairytales and poems.
