Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel dies at 70
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24 September, 2022 11:25 am IST
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Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies.
Mantel is recognised for reenergizing historical fiction with Wolf Hall and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII.
The final in the series, "The Mirror & the Light", was published in March 2020 and long-listed for the Booker Prize. It won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021, an award she also won for "Wolf Hall".
In a statement, her publisher said: "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel. "Our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald.
"It is with great sadness that HarperCollins announces that bestselling author Dame Hilary Mantel DBE died peacefully, surrounded by close family and friends," a statement on the website of her publisher 4th Estate Books, owned by HarperCollins, said.
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