Hilary Mantel, the British author who twice won the Booker Prize, has died at the age of 70, according to HarperCollins, her publisher. She died on Sept. 22.
When Mantel was alive, she could be contacted through her Agent Katie Haines on +44 (0)20 7467 0115 as per theagency.co.uk.
Mantel was best known for her “Wolf Hall” trilogy, a series of best-selling novels set amid the political turmoil of 16th-century England, for which she twice won the Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
Mantel had written critically praised historical and contemporary novels to little commercial notice before she became a literary phenomenon in 2009 with “Wolf Hall” and two subsequent novels, “Bring Up the Bodies” (2012) and “The Mirror & the Light” (2020).
The books, based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, a key minister to King Henry VIII, were set in an epoch awash in royal intrigue, religious upheaval, ruthless political machination and the brutal treatment of women.
