Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is the author of eleven novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, "Giving Up the Ghost." She writes both historical and contemporary fiction, and her settings range from a Sou... Read more
Hilary Mantel is the author of eleven novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, "Giving Up the Ghost." She writes both historical and contemporary fiction, and her settings range from a South African township under apartheid to Paris in the Revolution, from a city in twentieth-century Saudi Arabia to rural Ireland in the eighteenth century. Her novel "Wolf Hall" won the 2009 Man Booker prize, the inaugural Walter Scott prize, and in the US won the National Book Critics Circle Award. "Bring Up the Bodies" won the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. Taken together, "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" have sold over three million copies and have been translated into thirty-six languages. She is working on "The Mirror and the Light," the third book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy.