Hilary Mantel.
She first won in 2009 for her novel Wolf Hall and again in 2012 for her novel Bring Up the Bodies.
Hilary Mantel is the woman who has won the Booker Prize twice. She won in 2009 for "Wolf Hall" and in 2012 for "Bring Up the Bodies," both part of her Thomas Cromwell series.
The first woman to win the Booker Prize was Bernice Rubens in 1970. Rubens won the award for her novel, The Elected Member.
Arundhati Roy won the Booker prize for her brilliant and poetic novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997 making her the first Indian & woman to receive the prestigious award.Kiran Desai followed her with " The Inheritance of Loss" in 2006.Aravinda Adiga received the Booker prize for "The White Tiger" in 2008 and became the first Indian male to receive the prize.
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Marie Cure is the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice. First, in 1903, she was awarded the Nobel Prize, shared with Pierre Curie (her husband) and Henri Becquerel). Then, in 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize again. Her daughter (Irene Joliot-Curie) also won the Nobel Prize in 1935.
Pearl S. Buck was the first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature
The Nobel prize for economics has never been awarded to a woman
Marie Curie became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics (1903).
Marie Curie became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1911).
Marie Curie was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different fields.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teressa was the first Indian to get the Nobel prize for Peace.