The book, which is based on extensive, years-long research into the Tudor period by Mantel, is a fictional biography of Thomas Cromwell and his rise to power in the court of Henry VIII. Mantel became a global sensation, however, with “Wolf Hall,” which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. prizes, while her fifth novel, “A Place of Greater Safety,” won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Her novel, “Fludd,” was awarded a number of U.K. in 1986, and worked for a time as a film critic for the Spectator. The writer’s third novel, “Eight Months on Ghazzah Street,” is set in Jeddah. In 1977, Mantel and her husband Gerald McEwen relocated to Botswana and, in 1982, to Saudi Arabia. She attended the London School of Economics and Sheffield University, where she studied law.Īfter graduating from university, Mantel worked for a period as a social worker in a geriatric hospital - experiences that informed her novels “Every Day is Mother’s Day” and “Vacant Possession.”
Mantel was born in northern Derbyshire in 1952, and educated at a convent school in Cheshire. But I am always looking for improvement.” My health is unpredictable and a daily source of tension. In response to a question about her fitness, however, Mantel - who has reportedly long suffered from endometriosis - replied: “When I was small, an unkind doctor called me ‘Little Miss Neverwell.’ Now I’m Great Dame Neverwell. Asked what trait she finds the “most irritating” in others, the author quipped: “Toryism.” Mantel is also the only writer to have won with two consecutive novels.Ī cause of death has not yet been shared, though Mantel has been active in recent months, and even participated in a ‘Questionnaire’ interview with London’s Financial Times, published on Sept. According to HarperCollins U.K., Mantel is the first British author and the first woman to have won two Booker prizes.
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