Name | Hilary Mantel |
Net Worth | $3 – $5 million |
Date Of Birth |
July 6, 1952
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Place Of Birth | Glossop, United Kingdom |
Age | 70 years old |
Parents: | Henry Thompson, Margaret Thompson |
Awards: | Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections |
Education: | The University of Sheffield (1973), London School of Economics and Political Science |
Hilary Mantel Death
“We are devastated by the death of our beloved author,” her publisher, HarperCollins, lamented.
She was the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice.
British writer Hilary Mantel, author of At the Court of the Wolf, among other works, has died at the age of 70, her publisher, HarperCollins, reported Friday.
“We are devastated by the death of our beloved author, Lady Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald,” HarperCollins said in a message on social media.
The novelist died “suddenly but peacefully” and surrounded by her closest family and friends, her agency, AM Heath, explained in a statement.
Her agents called her ” one of the great English novelists of this century ” and considered her books to have become “modern classics”.
Mantel won the Booker Prize, the most prestigious award for literature in the UK, twice, with In the Court of the Wolf (2009) and its sequel A Queen on the Stand (2012).
Both makeup part of the historical novel trilogy, along with Thunder in the Kingdom (2020) , about the character of Thomas Cromwell, who was the right-hand man of King Henry VIII and one of the leading figures in the history of the United Kingdom.
With them, she became the first woman to win the Booker twice, and only the fourth person to do so, after JM Coetzee, Peter Carey and JG Farrell.
” We have lost a genius,” novelist and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling wrote on her Twitter account.