British author of ‘Wolf Hall’ saga Hilary Mantel dies at 70 | Books and Literature News,The Indian Express
Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends.
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HomeBooks and LiteratureBritish author of 'Wolf Hall' saga Hilary Mantel dies at 70
British author of ‘Wolf Hall’ saga Hilary Mantel dies at 70
Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends.
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London | Updated: September 23, 2022 4:30:37 pm
Author Hilary Mantel poses with her Commander of the British Empire (CBE) award at Buckingham Palace after an investiture ceremony by Prince Charles in London February 6, 2015. (REUTERS/Philip Toscano/pool/File Photo)Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Wolf Hall saga of historical novels, has died. She was 70.
Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday.
Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with Wolf Hall and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII.
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. pic.twitter.com/d8bzkBBXuH
— 4th Estate Books (@4thEstateBooks) September 23, 2022
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