Hilary Mantel
- Hilary Mary Mantel
- Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
- Sort Name
- Mantel, Hilary
- Ratings
- No reviews
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1952-07-06
- Place of birth
- United Kingdom
Wikipedia
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a 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 installment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize. The trilogy has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies.
Annotation
English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has written the Thomas Cromwell series.
Last modified: 2020-10-26 (revision #37078)
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Wolf Hall | Paperback | 9780312429980 | 2010-08-31 |
Wolf Hall (2012 hardback edition) | Hardcover | 9780007509775 | 2012-09-27 |
Relationships
- Hilary Mantel wrote Wolf Hall
- Hilary Mantel wrote Fludd
- Hilary Mantel wrote Beyond Black
- Hilary Mantel wrote Destroyed
- Hilary Mantel wrote The Clean Slate
Related Collections
This entity does not appear in any public collection.
Click the "Add to collection" button below to add it to an existing collection or create a new one.
Reviews No reviews
No reviews yet.
- Last Modified
- 2022-09-10