Dame hilary mantel biography
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Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on 6 July 1952.
She studied Law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University. She was employed as a social worker, and lived in Botswana for fem years, followed by four years in Saudi Arabia, before returning to Britain in the mid-1980s. In 1987 she was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an article about jidda (stad), and she was film critic for The Spectator from 1987 to 1991. Her novels include Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), set in Jeddah; Fludd (1989), set in a mill by in the north of England and winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, the Cheltenham Prize and the Southern Arts Literature Prize; A Place of Greater Safety (1992), an epic account of the events of the French revolution that won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award; A Change of Climate (1994), the story of a missionary couple whose lives are torn apart by the loss of their child; and An Experiment in Love
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Hilary Mantel
British writer (1952–2022)
Dame Hilary Mary MantelDBE FRSL (man-TEL;[4] born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.[5] 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.
Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third installment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize.[6] The trilogy has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies.
Early life
[edit]Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire,[7] the eldest
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An Interview with Hilary Mantel
Celebrated Booker prize-winning author Dame Hilary Mantel died on September 23, 2022. Such a loss to the literary world and to the world of historical fiction. One obituary referred to her as the queen of literature. In an interview with The Guardian, Hilary Mantel spoke about writing fiction: “But fiction makes me the servant of a process that has no clear beginning and end or method of measuring achievement. I don’t write in sequence. I may have a dozen versions of a single scene. I might spend a week threading an image through a story, but moving the narrative not an inch. A book grows according to a subtle and deep-laid plan. At the end, I see what the plan was.“
Writing in The Globe and Mail – my local Canadian paper – columnist and author Elizabeth Renzetti had this to say: “If you asked why Mantel was my favourite contemporary writer, this is the quality I’d point to. She was light and dark, hilarity and