{"id":689,"date":"2012-10-18T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:09:10","slug":"historical-fiction-wins-man-booker-prize-in-literature-neil-wynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2012\/10\/18\/historical-fiction-wins-man-booker-prize-in-literature-neil-wynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Fiction wins Man Booker Prize in Literature &#8211; Neil Wynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/mantel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-181\" title=\"mantel\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/mantel.jpg?w=196\" height=\"300\" width=\"196\" \/><\/a> of the \u00a0Man Booker Prize to Hilary Mantel, her second in a row, for <i>Bring Up the Bodies<\/i>, \u00a0the sequel to her previous winner, <i>Wolf Hall<\/i>, has placed historical fiction firmly in the public eye.\u00a0 Sir Peter Stothard, chair of the panel of judges, said \u201cshe has rewritten the book on writing historical fiction\u201d and some observers commented that history writing would not be the same again.\u00a0 Mantel\u2019s two novels, part of a trilogy, chart the career of Thomas Cromwell; <i>Bring Up the Bodies <\/i>\u00a0focuses on the Anne Boleyn and ends with her execution.\u00a0 Thoroughly researched, there is no doubt that Mantel\u2019s novels\u00a0 offer some insight into the court and times of Henry VIII.\u00a0 But \u00a0these novels do raise the issue of the line between fiction and history.\u00a0 Clearly the subject, compared to a story about the Mafia by Sir Stothard and referred to as \u201cour national soap opera\u201d by Mantel herself, lends itself to dramatic writing \u2013 \u00a0but could the lives of ordinary people be handled in the same way?\u00a0 Are we fixated too much\u00a0 with the Tudor kings and queens?\u00a0 Perhaps our early modernists have a view on this \u2013 and on the books themselves?\u00a0 In the meantime, good to see history this popular \u2013 even if in the guise of a novel!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of the \u00a0Man Booker Prize to Hilary Mantel, her second in a row, for Bring Up the Bodies, \u00a0the sequel to her previous winner, Wolf Hall, has placed historical fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[368,772],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-media-2","tag-neil-wynn"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}