London: British writer Hilary Mantel (70), who won the hearts of fans through Wolf Hall and won the Man Booker Prize twice, has passed away. Harper Collins, the book publisher, announced the death through Twitter. Comprised of 17 works, Hilary’s writings are considered modern classics. She is the first woman and British writer to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
Hilary Mary Mantel Thomson, novelist, short story writer and critic, was born on July 6, 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England. She is the eldest of the three children of Irish origin Margaret and Henty Thompson. She won the Booker Prize for her novels Wolf Hall in 2009 and Bring Up the Bodies in 2012. The trilogy of novels including Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies and the last work, The Mirror and the Light, published in March 2020, have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.
Translated into 41 languages. Drama and TV series. Thomas Cromwell, the prime minister of Henry VIII, who ruled England in the 16th century, updated the familiar historical narratives of ‘Wolf Hall’ as the main character. Hilary, a social activist, started writing in 1974 with the historical novel A Place of Greater Safety, written in the context of the French Revolution. The novel was released in 1992 and was ignored by all publishers. In 1973, she married geologist Gerald McEwan. She divorced him in 1981 and remarried him the following year. He was a staunch socialist idea propagandist.
