Booker-Prize winner Hilary Mantel passes away
New Delhi: British author of the best-selling trilogy, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel passed away, her publisher and agent revealed on Friday, September 23, 2022. She was 70 years old.
According to her agent, “Mantel died suddenly yet peacefully, surrounded by close family and friends.”
Publishers HarperCollins released an official statement that read, “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.”
“Mantel was one of the greatest English novelists of this century and her beloved works are considered modern classics. She will be greatly missed,” her agent, Ben Hamilton, said.
“Her wit, stylistic daring, creative ambition and phenomenal historical insight mark her out as one of the greatest novelists of our time,” Hamilton said.
“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… We will miss her immeasurably, but as a shining light for writers and readers she leaves an extraordinary legacy,” he added.
The Booker Prizes official twitter handle posted, “Everyone at the Booker Prizes is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Hilary Mantel, four-time Booker Prize nominee and winner in 2009 and 2012. We send our sincere condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.”
Born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on July 06, 1952, Mantel studied Law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University before being employed as a social worker.
She lived in Botswana for five years, followed by four years in Saudi Arabia, before returning to Britain in the mid-1980s. Mantel married geologist Gerald McEwen on September 23, 1972.
(Avya Mathur)
