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Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL (/ m æ n ˈ t ɛ l / man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.
Sep 23, 2022 · Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most decorated novelists, whose trilogy of books on the life of Thomas Cromwell — “Wolf Hall,” “Bring Up the Bodies” and “The Mirror and the Light” — received both...
Sep 23, 2022 · Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first...
Jun 12, 2024 · Hilary Mantel, English writer known for her bleakly comic, socially probing novels set in a wide range of contemporary and historical milieus. Her most notable work was a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell: Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012), and The Mirror & the Light (2020).
Biography. Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on 6 July 1952. She studied Law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University. She was employed as a social worker, and lived in Botswana for five years, followed by four years in Saudi Arabia, before returning to Britain in the mid-1980s.
Sep 23, 2022 · Dame Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The conclusion to the trilogy, Mirror and the Light, was published in 2020 and was an instant number one ...
Sep 28, 2022 · Today we remember writer Hilary Mantel, who died last week at the age of 70. Mantel was best known for her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the political fixer for Henry VIII.
Sep 23, 2022 · Hilary Mantel, the British author who twice won the Booker Prize, has died at the age of 70. The acclaimed writer, who received the prestigious award for two of the books in her historical “Wolf...
Sep 23, 2022 · Dame Hilary Mantel died today. The British writer was 70. The cause was a stroke. Mantel's major work, the "Wolf Hall" trilogy, won her two Booker prizes and focused on King Henry VIII and his...
Sep 23, 2022 · Authors JK Rowling, Kate Mosse and Bernardine Evaristo have led the tributes to Dame Hilary Mantel, saying she changed the face of literature.
