Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022 Hilary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, was published in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third instalment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize.