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Hilary Mantel (1952–2022)

Author of Wolf Hall

Includes the names: Mantel H., Hilary Mantel, Hilary Mantle, Hilary Mantel, HILARY MANTEL, Hillary Mantel, by Hilary Mantel, Hilary Mary Mantel, הילרי מנטל, Dame Hilary (DBR FRSL) Mantel ... (see complete list), Hilary [Verfasser] Trabant Mantel, Christiane [Übersetzer]

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Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on July 6, 1952. She studied law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University. She worked as a social worker in Botswana for five years, followed by four years in Saudi Arabia. She returned to Britain in the mid-1980s. In 1987 she was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an article about Jeddah. She worked as a film critic for The Spectator from 1987 to 1991. She has written numerous books including Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, A Place of Greater Safety, A Change of Climate, The Giant, O'Brien, Giving up the Ghost: A Memoir, and Beyond Black. She has won several awards for her work including the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, the Cheltenham Prize and the Southern Arts Literature Prize for Fludd; the 1996 Hawthornden Prize for An Experiment in Love, the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, and the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Bring up the Bodies. She made The New York Times Best Seller List with her title The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Wolf Hall… (more)

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Wolf Hall Trilogy

Every Day Is Mother's Day

Een veiliger oord

Révolution

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Works by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall 13,143 copies, 639 reviews

Bring Up the Bodies 6,680 copies, 339 reviews

The Mirror and the Light 2,545 copies, 98 reviews

A Place of Greater Safety 1,781 copies, 58 reviews

Beyond Black 1,756 copies, 59 reviews

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories 967 copies, 71 reviews

Fludd 904 copies, 29 reviews

Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir 703 copies, 23 reviews

The Giant, O'Brien 540 copies, 26 reviews

An Experiment in Love 538 copies, 15 reviews

A Change of Climate 524 copies, 11 reviews

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street 484 copies, 13 reviews

Every Day Is Mother's Day 335 copies, 9 reviews

Vacant Possession 310 copies, 12 reviews

Mantel Pieces 209 copies, 7 reviews

Learning to Talk 162 copies, 11 reviews

Freedom: A Place of Greater Safety, Part 1 63 copies, 2 reviews

Wolf Hall [and] Bring Up the Bodies 56 copies, 1 review

Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies: The Stage Adaptation 48 copies

Wolf Hall Trilogy 40 copies, 1 review

Brotherhood: A Place of Greater Safety, Part 3 36 copies

Equality: A Place of Greater Safety, Part 2 34 copies

Ink in the Blood: A Hospital Diary 28 copies, 1 review

Holbein's Sir Thomas More 16 copies

The World of Wolf Hall 14 copies, 1 review

The Wolf Hall Picture Book 13 copies

The School of English 9 copies

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing 8 copies

How Shall I Know You? [short story] 8 copies, 1 review

Révolution 1 - L'idéal 6 copies

Goed leren praten 4 copies

Hilary Mantel Collection (Six book set) 4 copies

Vorstelijke personages en andere geschriften 4 copies

Révolution 2 - Les désordres (French Edition) 3 copies

Three-Book Edition : A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant… 2 copies

Wolf Hall: The Stage Adaptation 1 copy

Cinderella in Autumn 1 copy

Lustro i światło 1 copy

The Right to Life 1 copy

Sprechen lernen: Erzählungen 1 copy

'The Crowe is White' in LRB 31/18, 21 Sept 2009 [review of Eamon Duffy's… 1 copy

The Hilary Mantel Collection 1 copy

'The Magic of Keith Thomas' in NYRB 59/10, 7 June 2012 [review of new ed.… 1 copy

The Heart Fails without Warning 1 copy

Bring Up the Bodies: The Stage Adaptation 1 copy

'Royal Bodies' in LRB 35/4, 21 Feb 2013 1 copy

Mens vs. natuur ; De moord op Margaret Thatcher 1 copy

ARTICLE: My Writing Day [Hilary Mantel] 1 copy

HILARY MANTEL: WHY I BECAME AN HISTORICAL NOVELIST 1 copy

ARTICLE: H MANTEL-WHY I BECAME AN HISTORIAN 1 copy

Wintertrip & Iemands kind 1 copy

The woman who died of Robespierre 1 copy

ANA BOLENA 1 copy

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (Introduction, some editions) 8,496 copies, 184 reviews

Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in popular beliefs in… (Introduction, some editions) 1,322 copies, 18 reviews

Angel (Introduction, some editions) 847 copies, 31 reviews

Marking Time (Afterword, some editions) 799 copies, 27 reviews

Faces in the Water (Introduction, some editions) 557 copies, 18 reviews

The Fox in the Attic (Introduction, some editions) 440 copies, 11 reviews

The Tortoise and the Hare (Introduction, some editions) 421 copies, 11 reviews

The Long View (Introduction, some editions) 258 copies, 5 reviews

The Wooden Shepherdess (Introduction, some editions) 185 copies, 4 reviews

Odd Girl Out (Introduction, some editions) 171 copies, 2 reviews

Granta 63: Beasts (Contributor) 132 copies

Granta 56: What Happened to Us? (Contributor) 125 copies

Best European Fiction 2011 (Contributor) 106 copies, 3 reviews

Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American… (Contributor) 90 copies, 1 review

Wolf Hall [2015 mini series] (Original book) 82 copies, 1 review

Granta 147: 40th Birthday Special (Contributor) 47 copies, 1 review

Writers on writing (Contributor) 28 copies

The Best British Short Stories 2011 (Contributor) 27 copies

TLS Short Stories (Contributor) 12 copies

The Best British Short Stories 2015 (Contributor) 12 copies

Great fairytales, part 1, Wicked parents (Afterword) 2 copies

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Canonical name

Mantel, Hilary

Legal name

Mantel, Hilary Mary Thompson

Other names

Date of birth

1952-07-06

Date of death

2022-09-22

Burial location

Gender

female

Nationality

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK

Place of death

Exeter, Devon, England

Cause of death

stroke

Places of residence

Hadfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

Romiley, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Education

London School of Economics (law)

University of Sheffield (LL.B | 1973)

Occupations

Relationships

McEwen, Gerald (husband)

Agents

Bill Hamilton (AM Heath)

Organizations

The Spectator

Awards and honors

Short biography

Hilary Thompson was the eldest of three children in a Catholic English family of Irish descent. She took the surname of Mantel from her unofficial stepfather after her parents separated. After university, she worked as a social worker at a geriatric hospital and as a sales assistant in a department store. In 1972, she married Gerald McEwen, a geologist, and the couple later lived in Botswana and Saudi Arabia. She published a memoir of this time, "Someone to Disturb," in the London Review of Books. Her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, was published in 1985. Returning to England, Hilary Mantel became the film critic of The Spectator and a reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines in Britain and the USA.

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