Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, appeared in 1985, and she went on to write twelve novels, two collections of short stories and a memoir. She died in 2022. She won the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall in 2009, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and for its sequel Bring Up the Bodies in 2012. The third part of the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was longlisted for the same prize, and the trilogy has sold more than five million copies.