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Best-selling author Dame Hilary Mantel dies

Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 23 Sep 2022, 06:24 am Print

Best-selling author Dame Hilary Mantel dies Dame Hilary Mantel

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Author  Dame Hilary Mantel, who is known for penning down  best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died.

She was 70.

She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and the 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies, reports BBC.

4th Estate Books tweeted: "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."