British writer Hilary Mantel dies at 70

english writer Hillary Mantel author ‘At the wolf court’ and ‘A Queen on the Stage’, among other works, died at the age of 70, editorial reported this Friday, HarperCollins.

“We are devastated by the death of our beloved writer, Lady Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband Gerald,” HarperCollins said on its social media account.

novelist He died “suddenly but peacefully” surrounded by his closest family and friends.As explained in a statement by his agency AM Heath.

His agents called him “one of the greatest English novelists of this century” and thought his books had become “modern classics”. Mantel won the Booker PrizeTwice the most prestigious lyric in the UK, with “In the Court of the wolf” (2009) and its sequel “A queen on the lectern” (2012).

Both, King VIII. United Kingdom. was with them First woman to win Booker twiceand is only the fourth person to do so, after JM Coetzee, Peter Carey, and JG Farrell.

“We lost a genius“Novelist and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling wrote on her Twitter account.


Source: Informacion

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