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Author Mantel (1952-2022): Multi-award winning
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Award-winning British writer Hilary Mantel has died at the age of 70.
This was announced by her publisher on Friday via Twitter.
“We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel.
Our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband Gerald,” publisher 4th Estate Books wrote.
"This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful that she left us such a magnificent body of work".
Only three people can claim to have won the Booker Prize, the most important British literary award, twice.
Alongside South African JM Coetzee and Australian Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel was one of them: first in 2009 for »Wolf Hall« and then in 2012 for the sequel »Bring Up the Bodies«.
According to her publisher in Great Britain, the British news agency PA announced that the successful author died "suddenly but peacefully" surrounded by her family.
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