Hilary Mantel

1952–2022

English novelist, born Hilary Thompson in Glossop, Derbyshire, and raised in Hadfield. She studied law at the London School of Economics and the University of Sheffield, then lived in Botswana and Saudi Arabia. Her first novel, Every Day Is Mother’s Day, appeared in 1985; later books include A Place of Greater Safety and Beyond Black. Her Thomas Cromwell trilogy won the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012). She was made a dame in 2014 and died in 2022. The Mirror & the Light was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Hilary Mantel’s life

Works

• Beyond Black (2005)
• Wolf Hall (2009)
• Bring Up the Bodies (2012)
• The Mirror & the Light (2020)

Prizes

• The Mirror & the Light — The Booker Prize 2020: Longlist
• Wolf Hall — Golden Man Booker Prize 2018: Shortlist
• Bring Up the Bodies — The Booker Prize 2012: Winner, Shortlist, Longlist
• Wolf Hall — The Booker Prize 2009: Winner, Shortlist, Longlist
• Beyond Black — The Booker Prize 2005: Longlist