Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( man-TEL; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first time for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and secondly for the 2012 novel Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G. Farrell (who posthumously won the Lost Man Booker Prize). The third instalment of the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was released on 5 March 2020 in the UK and the following July was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
Hilary Mantel
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希拉里·曼特尔, Hilary Mary Thompson, ਹਿਲੇਰੀ ਮਾਂਟੇਲ, and 23 others
هيلاري مانتل, ഹിലരി മാന്റൽ, হিলারি ম্যান্টেল, Mantel. Chilari, Hilary Mantel, هیلاری منتل, הילארי מאנטל, Hilari Meri Mentel, הילרי מנטל, هيلاري مانتل،, ヒラリー マンテル, هيلاري مانتيل،, 希拉蕊·曼特爾, Хілары Мэнтэл, Гілары Мэнтэл, 힐러리 맨틀, Hilaria Mantel, ヒラリー・マンテル, Hīlārī Māntīl, Хилари Мэнтел, हिलरी मॅन्टेल, Гіларі Ментел, Hilary Mantelová - Born:
- July 6, 1952
- Died:
- Nov. 5, 2022
