Hilary Mantel, two-time Booker The award-winner, best known for his trilogy of novels from the life of Thomas Cromwell, has died of a stroke, according to her literary agent Bill Hamilton. According to Hamilton, Mantel was writing a new novel at the time of her death. “It’s just a huge loss of literature,” he said in a statement. before transferring to the University of Sheffield to study Legal Theory . In the same year, she married her husband, geologist Gerald McEwan, and they were in 1981 start in a safer place work), a novel about the French Revolution, which barely sold year. Mantel’s first published novel, Every day is Mother’s Day (16) , emerges from a particularly difficult time in her life: her crumbling marriage to McEwan (the two ended in
before remarrying a year ago) and after her late s Mantel was so ill that she later concluded she had severe endometriosis. (“I was admitted to St. George’s Hospital,” she said in
Zhong told The New Yorker, “Ten days later I came out without ovaries, uterus, bowels, bladder. Subtract the future and have a baby In terms of.”)
The follow-up novel was inspired by her years in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for McEwan’s work(1988 of eight months on Ghazzah Street ) and the long shadow of her Catholic upbringing (
of
Fludd
, which will Win the Mantel’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Award, and 1996, the Hawthorne Award winner
, The Love Experiment ), and other personal and historical topics. However, Mantel is in
Wolf Hall (
Found her biggest audience ),
cultivate the body
(1981) and
Mirror and Light ( 2015), three on The book of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful adviser to Henry VIII. (Cromwell’s twists and turns had become Mantel’s charm in high school; “I realized this man needed to do some imaginative work,” she wrote in 2015.) Both the first two books won the Mantle Booker Prize and were adapted into the critically acclaimed BBC series starring Mark Rylance, and in 2021 Tony nominated script -1988 Broadway Season.
Booker Prize Jury Chairman James Notti
, praised
Wolf Hall — Almost Running page – and “Bold Narrative, Scenography”. Hilary Mantel has produced what one of the judges called a contemporary novel, a modern novel, which happens to take place in 16century. We think it’s an extraordinary storytelling. Mantel’s last completed novel, Mirror and Light, tells of Cromwell’s work in 16.It was also adapted for stage, in
Opening of the London Gielgud Theatre .
“How fitting some writers’ names are. Muriel Spark, searing short stories. Judy Bloom, a story about a young girl coming of age. Ann Patchett, whose working family is desperately trying to mend their tattered relationship,” Parul Sehgal wrote for The New York Times
wrote in a review of the latter book. “Then Hilary Mantel, author of several books, including a series of A critically acclaimed novel set in the Tudor dynasty, her themes can be seen in her own name—concealment and secrecy, the weight of responsibility—and, as it happens, succumbing to her rich and bloody imagination. special fun. “
Mantel’s husband survived.
