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General AwarenessHilary Mantel wins 2012 Man Booker PrizeThe whittling has finished. The judges of this year's Man Booker Prize started with a daunting 145 novels and havewinnowed, sifted, culled, and in some cases hurled, until there was only one left: Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies.Hers is a story unique in Man Booker history. She becomes only the third author, after Peter Carey and J.M. Coetzee, towin the prize twice, which puts her in the empyrean. But she is also the first to winwith a sequel (Wolf Hall won in 2009) and the first to win with such a brief interludebetween books. Her resuscitation of Thomas Cromwell – and with him the historicalnovel – is one of the great achievements of modern literature. There is the lastvolume of her trilogy still to come so her Man Booker tale may yet have a furtherchapter.The writing will have to wait a bit though. She may have won before but the torrentof media interest will still knock her back as if she's been hit by a wave. In 2009 sheconfessed to feeling as though she were “flying through the air”, well, she's soaring again. When she lands she won'thave time to think and she will talk into microphones until her throat is sore. It comes with the territory: everyonewants a bit of the Man Booker winner.The Man Booker International Prize recognizes one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. Worth £60,000, theprize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose workis generally available in translation in the English language. The winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judgingpanel and there are no submissions from publishers. The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different fromthe annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In seeking out literary excellence, the judges consider a writer's body of workrather than a single novel.2012 Nobel Prizes WinnersTHE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2012Serge Haroche David J. WinelandThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland ”for ground-breaking experimentalmethods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2012http://www.developindiagroup.co.in/ Page 2