Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70.
Key points
- She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009’s Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies.
- Wolf Hall was a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.
- The third and final book in the series, The Mirror and the Light, was published in 2020 to much critical acclaim, became a fiction best-seller and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2020.
- The trilogy sold more than five million copies globally and has been translated into 41 languages.
- Her fifth novel, A Place Of Greater Safety, won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, while Beyond Black, published in 2005, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
