Hilary Mantel, the dual Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga, has died. She was 70.Her publisher HarperCollins said Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends.Hilary Mantel, the dual Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga, has died. She was 70.
Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for “Wolf Hall” in 2009 and its sequel “Bring Up the Bodies” in 2012. Both were adapted for the stage and television.Harry Potter author JK Rowling tweeted that “we’ve lost a genius” following Mantel’s passing.“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,” Sturgeon said.
It’s a period of history that has inspired many books, films and television series, from “A Man for All Seasons” to “The Tudors.” But Mantel managed to make the well-known story new and exciting.“Only last month I sat with her on a sunny afternoon in Devon, while she talked excitedly about the new novel she had embarked on,” he said. “That we won’t have the pleasure of any more of her words is unbearable. What we do have is a body of work that will be read for generations.