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Hilary Mantel
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
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Born 6 July 1952 · Died 22 September 2022 · Q465700
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2026· 7 entries
“you have to find a way of living with it and living around it.”
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parade.com: Home Depot’s Whimsical Fabric Gnome Trio Will Bring ‘Adorable’ Harvest Charm to Any Fall Mantel
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The Guardian: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel tale is provocative, powerful theatre
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The Guardian: Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction
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A stage adaptation of ''The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'' premiered at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Hilary Mantel story imagining Margaret Thatcher’s assassination to be staged in Liverpool
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The Guardian: Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published
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Moviefone: Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall - Where to Watch
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘She was the only genius I ever met’: Wolf Hall director on making latest instalment without Hilary Mantel
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The Guardian: Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life
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The Guardian: A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel audiobook review – an endlessly vibrant mind
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2023· 1 entry
The Conversation: Conversing with the ‘restless dead’ – a posthumous collection of Hilary Mantel’s writing illuminates her singular literary achievement
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2022· 2 entries
Died 2022-09-22.
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Mantel was working on a new novel which was characterized as a "mash-up" of Jane Austen novels
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2020· 2 entries
Awarded Companion of Literature (2020).
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Mantel published the third novel of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, called The Mirror & the Light
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2016· 1 entry
Won President's Medal (2016).
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2014).
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Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2014).
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Mantel published a collection of 10 short stories, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, which The Guardian called a "flawed but absorbing selection" singling out the story Sorry to Disturb for praise
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded David Cohen Prize (2013).
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Won Bodley Medal (2013).
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“I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people. [...] When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst the worst people I knew.”
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Booker Prize for Bring Up the Bodies (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction (2010).
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for Wolf Hall (2009).
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Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Wolf Hall (2009).
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“I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air”
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Mantel published her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, which won the MIND "Book of the Year" award
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Hawthornden Prize for An Experiment in Love (1996).
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Fludd (1990).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1990).
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Career landmark: Booker Prize judge (1990–1990).
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1985· 1 entry
And its sequel, Vacant Possession, a year later
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1983· 1 entry
And fictionalised the event in a short story called "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: 6 August 1983"
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1977· 1 entry
Mantel moved with her husband to Botswana, where they lived for the next five years
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1974· 1 entry
Began writing a novel about the French Revolution, but was unable to find a publisher (it was eventually released as A Place of Greater Safety in 1992)
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1973· 1 entry
Studied at University of Sheffield, bachelor's degree (1973).
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1970· 2 entries
Studied at London School of Economics and Political Science (1970).
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Began studies at the London School of Economics to read law
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1956· 1 entry
In a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton, centering on a Roman Catholic church and a convent
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-07-06.
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