Booker Prize-winning author Dame Hilary Mary Mantel has died. She was 70. The news of her death was shared by her publisher HarperCollins UK today on social media.
A tweet by HarperCollins UK read, "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work."
Born on July 6, 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, Dame Hilary Mantel's works include historical fictions, short stories, and memoirs. The British writer is best-known for her Wolf Hall trilogy (Cromwell trilogy).
Mantel has been awarded the prestigious Booker Prize twice-- in 2009 for her book 'Wolf Hall', which a historical fiction novel on Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in Henry VIII's court; and in 2012 for the book 'Bring Up the Bodies', which is the second novel in the Cromwell trilogy. Her third novel in the Cromwell trilogy, titled 'The Mirror & the Light', was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.
'Mantel was the first woman and fourth person to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G. Farrell,' as per Wikipedia.
Our condolence to her family, friends, and readers.
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