Hilary Mantel Dies: ‘Wolf Hall’ Author Was 70

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https://t. co/SM5UlOBFtwBen Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptations of the Wolf Hall novels, also paid tribute. “She was an extraordinary woman.

Manori Ravindran International Editor At the time of her untimely death, British author Hilary Mantel was consulting on the TV adaptation of her most recent novel, “The Mirror and the Light” — the conclusion to her critically acclaimed Tudor trilogy that began with “Wolf Hall.” The two-time Booker Prize-winning author’s sudden death at 70 was announced on Friday by her publishers, sending shockwaves among her fans and the literary and TV industries — but especially her inner circle of collaborators who were in constant touch with Mantel. Peter Kosminsky, the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated director and screenwriter, has known Mantel for “many, many years,” he told Variety over the phone on Friday. Kosminsky directed the Golden Globe-winning BBC and PBS drama “Wolf Hall,” and the pair have been collaborating more recently on a BBC adaptation of “The Mirror and the Light,” which covers the last four years of the life of Thomas Cromwell (played by Mark Rylance), before his fall from grace and death by execution in 1540.

K.J. Yossman The worlds of publishing and screen have paid tribute to author Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday (Sept. 22) at the age of 70. Peter Kosminsky, who directed the BBC adaptation of Mantel’s novel “Wolf Hall,” told Variety: “A great light has gone out. The word ‘great’ is used very easily these days but nobody could dispute that it’s an appropriate epithet for Dame Hilary Mantel. If you look at the scale of her achievements, the impact she’s had, the breadth of her knowledge and reading… She’s someone whom people went to for thoughts and opinions on a variety of different novels ad nonfiction works. People recognized her for the massive intellect as she was. It’s hard to imagine a world without her.”

the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died. She was 70.Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday.Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII.The publisher said Mantel was “one of the greatest English novelists of this century.”“Her beloved works are considered modern classics.

Manori Ravindran International Editor Hilary Mantel, the two-time Booker Prize-winning British novelist best known for the books “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” has died. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her publishers 4th Estate Books and HarperCollins U.K. on Friday afternoon local time. A cause of death has not yet been shared. In an identical statement posted on social media, 4th Estate Books and HarperCollins wrote: “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.”

Jason Manford defends Harry and Meghan over hand-holding rowHe said: "Her wit, stylistic daring, creative ambition and phenomenal historical insight mark her out as one of the greatest novelists of our time."She will be remembered for her enormous generosity to other budding writers, her capacity to electrify a live audience, and the huge array of her journalism and criticism, producing some of the finest commentary on issues and books."He added that her emails were "sprinkled with bon mots and jokes as she observed the world with relish and pounced on the lazy or absurd and nailed cruelty and prejudice".Bill went on to say she had chronic health problems "which she dealt with so stoically".More tributes have flooded in for the late writer on social media.Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "It is impossible to overstate the significance of the literary legacy Hilary Mantel leaves behind."Her brilliant Wolf Hall trilogy was the crowning achievement in an outstanding body of work. Rest in peace."Matthew Pennycook MP wrote: "Awful news.

Wolf Hall writer Dame Hilary Mantel has died aged 70.

READ MORE:Queen didn't want royals 'locked away in palaces' following devastating deathBefore writing, she had previously worked as a social worker and lived in Botswana for five years.She then moved to Saudi Arabia for four years and later returned to England in the 1980s.In 2006, Mantel was awarded a CBE and in 2014 she received a DBE.Hilary was a patron of theatrical mentoring project Scene and Heard, a governor of RSC and president of the Budleigh Festival.Her popular Wolf Hall trilogy received praise from many famous faces and Oxford theology professor Thomas Cromwell was amongst them.He said: "Hilary has reset the historical patterns through the way in which she’s reimagined the man." Hilary won the esteemed Man Booker Price twice - once for Wolf Hall and another for the book's sequel Bring Up The Bodies, which was also awarded the Costa Book Of The Year in 2012.The final book in the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was released in 2020 and was an instant hit.It became a number one fiction best seller and was long listed for The Booker Prize in 2020.It also won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which she also won for the trilogy's first book Wolf Hall.Among some of her other best selling books are Every Day is Mother's Day, Vacant Possession, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, Fludd, A Change of Climate, Learning to Talk and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.The writer has also written non-fiction pieces including Giving Up The Ghost, which is a collection of writings from the London Review Of Books.Her other non-fiction publications include Mantel Pieces and The Wolf Hall Picture Book.Tributes for the author have been pouring in since the announcement of her death.CEO of HarperCollins Charlie