Booker-prize winning author Hilary Mantel dies at age 70

By Online Desk

Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel has passed away at the age of 70.

Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday.

In a statement, her publisher said: “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel.

“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.”

Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell.

Hilary Mantel is the author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009’s Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and 2012’s follow-up Bring Up the Bodies, reports BBC.

The conclusion to her trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim, became a number one fiction best-seller and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2020.

The book also won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which she first won for Wolf Hall.

(With inputs from Associated Press)

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