The Wolf Hall trilogy author Hilary Mantel from the United Kingdom passed away at the age of 70.
She passed away “suddenly but peacefully,” according to the British Publication The Telegraph. She was the first woman to get the Booker Prize twice.
“Bestselling author Dame Hilary Mantel DBE died suddenly but quietly yesterday, surrounded by close family and friends, aged 70,” the publishing behemoth HarperCollins reported. The statement said, “Hilary Mantel was one of the best English authors of this century, and her well-loved books are regarded as modern masterpieces. She is going to be sorely missed. DBE, or “Damehood of the Order of the British Empire,” is the acronym.
` With her historical fiction, short stories, and memoirs, Mantel became well-known. Her Wolf Hall trilogy is a fictitious portrayal of Thomas Cromwell’s ascent to power as chief minister in the court of King Henry VIII.
Mantel received the Booker Prize twice, first for her 2009 book Wolf Hall and then for the second book in the trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies, which she published in 2012. Mantel became the fourth person and first female to win the prize twice. The others are Peter Carey, J. G. Farrell, and J. M. Coetzee.
The Mirror and the Light, the third book in the trilogy written by Mantel, was released in 2020 and made the Booker Prize longlist. With more than 5 million copies sold globally, the trilogy has been translated into 41 different languages. The books were adapted for the stage as well as a six-part BBC television series starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis that was broadcast on PBS in the United States.
The Novelist made news in 2013 when she referred to Kate Middleton as a “jointed doll on which certain rags are hung” whose primary function is regarded as delivering an heir to the monarchy.
Mantel, who was born on July 6, 1952, in Glossop, England, attended Sheffield University and the London School of Economics to study law. She was a social worker who lived in Botswana for five years before moving to Saudi Arabia for four years. In the middle of the 1980s, Mantel went back to Britain.
