Writing workshop to take place at Pig Iron


October 21, 2012 at 12:00a.m.

Writing workshop to take place at Pig Iron

YOUNGSTOWN

Pig Iron Literary & Art Works will have a writing workshop from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Pig Iron Press, 26 N. Phelps St., downtown. Jim Villani is the facilitator. For information, call 330-747-6932.

Mantel wins 2nd Booker for Tudor saga

LONDON

British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time last week with her blood-soaked Tudor saga “Bring Up the Bodies,” which the head of the judging panel said had “rewritten the book” on historical fiction.

Mantel, who took the $82,000 award in 2009 for “Wolf Hall,” is the first British author, and the first woman, to achieve a Booker double.

“Bring Up the Bodies” is the first sequel to win the prize. It and “Wolf Hall” are parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful and ambiguous chief minister to King Henry VIII.

Vindicator staff/wire reports