Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel dies – Times of India

Booker Prize-winning author Dame Hilary Mary Mantle has died. She was 70 years old. News of his death was shared by his publisher HarperCollins UK on social media today.

“We are saddened by the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantle, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband Gerald,” a tweet from HarperCollins UK read. A devastating loss and we can only be grateful. He left us with such a wonderful body of work.”

Born on 6 July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, Dame Hilary Mantle’s works include historical fiction, short stories and memoirs. The British author is famous for his Wolfhall Trilogy (Cromwell Trilogy).

Mantle has twice been awarded the prestigious Booker Prize — in 2009 for his book Wolf Hall, a historical fiction novel about Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power at Henry VIII’s court. and in 2012 for the book Bringing Up the Bodies, the second novel in the Cromwell Trilogy. His third novel in the Cromwell trilogy, titled ‘The Mirror and the Light’, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.

According to Wikipedia, ‘Mantel was the first woman and the fourth person to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of JM Coetzee, Peter Carey and JG Farrell’.

Our condolences to his family, friends and readers.

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