Hilary Mantel, Double Booker Prize winner and author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, dies at 70

The publisher of the famous British novelist Dame Hilary Mantel has announced that she is 70 years old. “It is with great sadness that AM Heath and HarperCollins announce that best-selling author Dame Hilary Mantell DBE died suddenly and peacefully yesterday, surrounded by family and close friends, at the age of 70,” HarperCollins said in a statement. Hilary Mantell was one of the greatest English novelists of the century and her beloved works are considered modern classics. We will miss her very much.” Mantel is best known for the sprawling…

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Hilary Mantel, British writer of the ‘Wolf Hole’ series, dies at 70

London Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning writer who transformed Tudor power politics into the page-turning novels in the famous “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died. She was 70 years old. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Mantel passed away “suddenly but peacefully” surrounded by family and close friends. Mantel is credited with revitalizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about powerful 16th-century English broker Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s right-hand man. The publisher said that Mantel was “one of the greatest English novelists of the century”. Her…

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