Hilary Mary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards.
Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall in 2009.
She was born in Glossop, Derbyshire on July 1952 (age 57).
Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall is a Man Booker Prize-winning novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate. Set in the 1520s, it is about Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the Tudor court of King Henry VIII.
Tags: Man Booker 2009, Nobel Prize 2009