![]() ![]() She leaves behind a remarkable body of work which inspire readers around the world.” “Hilary Mantel will always be remembered as a truly original writer. “It is with great sadness that HarperCollins announces that bestselling author Dame Hilary Mantel DBE died peacefully, surrounded by close family and friends, yesterday,” a statement on the website of her publisher 4th Estate Books, which is owned by HarperCollins, said. It won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021, an award she also won for Wolf Hall. The final in the series, The Mirror & the Light, was published in March 2020 and long-listed for the Booker Prize. Wolf Hall, published in 2009, and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, released three years later, both won the Booker Prize, an unprecedented win for two books in the same trilogy and making Mantel the first woman to win the award twice. ![]() Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author of the award-winning Wolf Hall Tudor trilogy, died peacefully on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Friday. ![]()
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