Man Booker Prize
Mantel was credited with reenergizing historical fiction with āWolf Hallā and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell.
He was the second consecutive American writer to win the prize.
Ottessa Moshfegh's stories of selfish people doing foul things capture the dark side of human nature.
The chair of the judging panel said his novel āThe Selloutā was a unanimous choice.
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