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'''Dame Hilary Mary Mantel''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=|DBE|FRSL}} ({{IPAc-en|m|æ|n|ˈ|t|ɛ|l}} {{respell|man|TEL|'}};<ref name="Pronunciation">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/09/how_to_say_3.shtml |title=How to Say: JM Coetzee and other Booker authors |last=Sangster |first=Catherine |date=14 September 2009 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=1 October 2009}}</ref> born '''Thompson'''; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.<ref name="likethis">{{cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth67 |title=Literature: Writers: Hilary Mantel| publisher=[[British Council]] |year=2011 |access-date=14 May 2012}}</ref> Her first published novel, ''[[Every Day Is Mother's Day]]'', was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
 
Mantel won the [[Booker Prize]] twice: the first was for her 2009 novel ''[[Wolf Hall]]'', a fictional account of [[Thomas Cromwell]]'s rise to power in the court of [[Henry&nbsp;VIII]], and the second was for its 2012 sequel ''[[Bring Up the Bodies]]''. The third installment of the Cromwell trilogy, ''[[The Mirror and& the Light]]'', was longlisted for the same prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/booker-prize/news/2020-booker-prize-longlist-announced|title=The 2020 Booker Prize longlist announced|publisher=The Booker Prizes|date=27 July 2020|access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref> The trilogy has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies.
 
== Early life ==
Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in [[Glossop]], Derbyshire,<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winner celebrated for the 'Wolf Hall' trilogy |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-news/obituary-hilary-mantel-booker-prize-winner-celebrated-for-wolf-hall-trilogy-42014820.html |access-date=29 September 2022 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |date=25 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers, and raised as a Roman Catholic<ref name=catholic /> in the [[mill village]] of [[Hadfield, Derbyshire|Hadfield]], where she attended St&nbsp;Charles [[Roman Catholic]] Primary School.
 
Her parents, Margaret (née Foster) and Henry Thompson (a clerk), were both Catholics of Irish descent, born in England. When Mantel was seven, her mother's lover, Jack Mantel, moved in with the family. He shared a bedroom with her mother, while her father moved to another room. Four years later, when she was eleven, the family, except for her father, moved to [[Romiley]], [[Cheshire]], to escape the local gossip. She never saw her father again.<ref>Obituary in ''The Times'' (London); reprinted in [[The Dominion Post (New Zealand)|''The Dominion Post'']] (New Zealand), 27 September 2022, page 24</ref>
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In 1970, she began studies at the [[London School of Economics]] to read law.<ref name=likethis /> She transferred to the [[University of Sheffield]] and graduated as a Bachelor of [[Jurisprudence]] in 1973.<ref name="NYer" /> After university, Mantel worked in the social work department of a geriatric hospital and then as a sales assistant at [[Kendals]] department store in Manchester.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/hilary-mantel_4 | title=Hilary Mantel }}</ref>
 
In 1973, she married Gerald McEwen, a [[geologist]].<ref name=gentlewoman /> In 1974, she began writing a novel about the [[French Revolution]], but was unable to find a publisher (it was eventually released as ''A Place of Greater Safety'' in 1992). In 1977 Mantel moved with her husband to [[Botswana]], where they lived for the next five years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/hilary-mantel |title=Hilary Mantel |publisher=The Man Booker Prize |access-date=14 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128125009/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/hilary-mantel |archive-date=28 November 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later, they spent four years in [[Jeddah, Saudi Arabia|Jeddah]], [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref name="open.ac.uk/tourism">{{cite web |last1=O'Reilly |first1=Sally |last2=Towheed |first2=Shafquat |title=A little literary tourism: in search of Hilary Mantel |url=https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/english/a-little-literary-tourism-in-search-of-hilary-mantel/ |website=Department of English and Creative Writing |publisher=[[The Open University]] |access-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926184517/https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/english/a-little-literary-tourism-in-search-of-hilary-mantel/ |archive-date=26 September 2022 |date=March 4, 2020}}</ref> She later said that leaving Jeddah felt like "the happiest day of [her] life";.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/21/hilary-mantel-saudi-arabia |title=Once upon a life|work=[[The Observer]] Magazine|date= 21 February 2010|location=London|first=Hilary|last=Mantel}}</ref> sheShe published memoirs of this period in ''[[The Spectator]]'',<ref name="spectator/hamra-prize">{{cite news |last1=Mantel |first1=Hilary |title=Last Morning in Al Hamra |url=<!-- https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hilary-mantel-1952---2022 -->https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/last-morning-in-al-hamra---shiva-naipaul-prize-1987 |access-date=26 September 2022 |work=[[The Spectator]] |date=1987}}</ref> and the ''[[London Review of Books]]''.<ref name="lrb/v11/n07/Bookcase">{{cite news |last1=Mantel |first1=Hilary |title=Diary: Bookcase Shopping in Jeddah |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/n07/hilary-mantel/diary |access-date=26 September 2022 |work=[[London Review of Books]] |date=30 March 1989 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="lrb/v31/n01/disturb">{{cite news |last1=Mantel |first1=Hilary |title=Someone to Disturb |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n01/hilary-mantel/someone-to-disturb |access-date=26 September 2022 |work=[[London Review of Books]] |date=1 January 2009 |language=en}}</ref>
 
== Literary career ==
Mantel's first novel, ''[[Every Day Is Mother's Day]],'' was published in 1985, and its sequel, ''[[Vacant Possession (novel)|Vacant Possession]]'', a year later. After returning to England, she became the film critic of ''[[The Spectator]]'', a position she held from 1987 to 1991,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/hilary-mantel|title=Hilary Mantel |work= Literature.britishcouncil.org|access-date=14 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212234223/http://literature.britishcouncil.org/hilary-mantel|archive-date=12 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a reviewer for a number of papers and magazines in Britain and the United States.
 
Her third novel, ''[[Eight Months on Ghazzah Street]]'' (1988), drew on her life in Saudi Arabia. It features a threatening clash of values between the neighbours in a city apartment block to explore the tensions between Islamic culture and the liberal West.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Hephzibah |date=19 April 2009 |title=Hilary Mantel: on the path from pain to prizes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/19/hilary-mantel-man-booker |access-date=30 July 2011 |newspaper=The Observer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ray |first=Mohit K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_YatfLrgnMC&pg=PA340 |title=The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors |year=2007 |isbn=9788126908325 |page=340}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rees |first=Jasper |date=8 October 2009 |title=Hilary Mantel: health or the Man Booker Prize? I'd take health |newspaper=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booker-prize/6271036/Hilary-Mantel-health-or-the-Man-Booker-Prize-Id-take-health.html |accessdate=30 July 2011}}</ref> Her [[Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize]]-winning novel ''[[Fludd (novel)|Fludd]]'' (1989) is set in 1956 in a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton, centringcentering on a Roman Catholic church and a convent. A mysterious stranger brings about transformations in the lives of those around him.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fludd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JiO2U05iv8kC&q=mantel+fludd+isbn |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |publisher=[[Viking Press]] |year=1989 |isbn=9780007354931}}</ref>
 
Mantel was a Booker Prize judge in 1990, when [[A. S. Byatt|A.S. Byatt's]] novel ''[[Possession (Byatt novel)|Possession]]'' was awarded the prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Booker Prize 1990 {{!}} The Booker Prizes |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/1990 |access-date=24 September 2022 |website=thebookerprizes.com |language=en}}</ref>
 
''[[A Place of Greater Safety]]'' (1992) won thebecame [[The Sunday Express Book of the Year]], an award, for which her two previous books had been shortlisted. A long and historically accurate novel, it traces the career of three French revolutionaries, [[Georges Danton|Danton]], [[Robespierre]] and [[Camille Desmoulins]], from childhood to their early deaths during the [[Reign of Terror]] of 1794.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Place of Greater Safety |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6saLhmubZsC&q=mantel+A+Place+of+Greater+Safety |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=1992 |isbn=9780007354849}}</ref>
 
''[[A Change of Climate]]'' (1994), set in rural [[Norfolk]], explores the lives of Ralph and Anna Eldred, as they raise their four children and devote their lives to charity. It includes chapters about their early married life as missionaries in South Africa, when they were imprisoned and deported to [[Bechuanaland]], and the tragedy that occurred there.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Change of Climate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVs07EFhImkC&q=mantel+A+Change+of+Climate |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=1994 |isbn=9780007354849}}</ref>
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Her next book, ''[[The Giant, O'Brien]]'' (1998), is set in the 1780s, and is based on the true story of [[Charles Byrne (giant)|Charles Byrne]] (or O'Brien). He came to London to earn money by displaying himself as a freak. His bones hang today in the Museum of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England|Royal College of Surgeons]]. The novel treats O'Brien and his antagonist, the Scots surgeon [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]], less as characters in history than as mythic protagonists in a dark and violent fairytale, necessary casualties of the [[Age of Enlightenment]]. She adapted the book for [[BBC Radio&nbsp;4]], in a play starring [[Alex Norton]] (as Hunter) and [[Frances Tomelty]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/hilary-mantel-books-adapted-tv-theatre-b2173847.html|title=Which of Hilary Mantel books were adapted for the screen and stage?|first=Isobel |last=Lewis|date=23 September 2022|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref>
 
In 2003, Mantel published her memoir, ''Giving Up the Ghost'', which won the [[Mind (charity)|MIND]] "Book of the Year" award. That same year she brought out a collection of short stories, ''Learning To Talk''. All the stories deal with childhood and, taken together, the books show how the events of a life are mediated as fiction. Her 2005 novel, ''[[Beyond Black]]'', was shortlisted for the [[Orange Prize]] and longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beyond Black {{!}} The Booker Prizes |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/beyond-black |access-date=24 September 2022 |website=thebookerprizes.com |date=3 May 2005 |language=en}}</ref> Novelist [[Pat Barker]] said it was "the book that should actually have won the Booker".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating Hilary Mantel: how the Wolf Hall author rewrote history {{!}} The Booker Prizes |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/celebrating-hilary-mantel |access-date=24 September 2022 |website=thebookerprizes.com |date=23 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it features a professional [[medium (spirituality)|medium]], Alison Hart, whose calm and jolly exterior conceals grotesque psychic damage. She trails around with her a troupe of "fiends", who are invisible but always on the verge of becoming flesh.<ref>{{cite book |title=Beyond Black |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwnOtdUHTbIC&q=mantel+Beyond+black|first=Hilary |last=Mantel |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2005 |isbn=9780007268375}}</ref>
 
The long novel ''[[Wolf Hall]]'', about [[Henry VIII of England|Henry&nbsp;VIII]]'s minister [[Thomas Cromwell]], was published in 2009 to critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/08/man-booker-shortlist|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=Booker Prize prize shortlist pits veteran Coetzee against bookies' favourite Mantel|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=8 September 2009|access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref><ref>Rubin, Martin (10 October 2009), [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703746604574461110318457866 "Book Review: Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall']{{closed access}} ''Wall Street Journal''.</ref> The book won that year's [[Booker Prize]] and, upon winning the award, Mantel said, "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8292488.stm|work=BBC News|title=Mantel named Booker Prize winner|date=6 October 2009|access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref> Judges voted three to two in favour of ''Wolf Hall'' for the prize. Mantel was presented with a trophy and a £50,000 cash prize during an evening ceremony at the [[Guildhall, London|Guildhall]], London.<ref name="Booker prize goes to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/06/booker-prize-hilary-mantel-wolf-hall|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=Booker prize goes to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall|first=Mark|last=Brown|date=6 October 2009|access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6863836.ece|title=The Booker got it right: Mantel's Cromwell is a book for all seasons|date=6 October 2009|work=The Times|access-date=7 October 2009|location=London|first=Neel|last=Mukherjee|author-link=Neel Mukherjee (writer)}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The panel of judges, led by the broadcaster [[James Naughtie]], described ''Wolf Hall'' as an "extraordinary piece of storytelling".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6863793.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101015222931/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6863793.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 October 2010|work=The Times|location=London|title=Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantels tale of historical intrigue|first=Ben|last=Hoyle|date=6 October 2009|access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref> Leading up to the award, the book was backed as the favourite by bookmakers and accounted for 45% of the sales of all the nominated books.<ref name="Booker prize goes to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall" /> It was the first favourite since 2002 to win the award.<ref name="Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' Wins U.K. Booker Prize, 50,000 Pounds" /> On receiving the prize, Mantel said that she would spend the prize money on "sex and drugs and rock' n' roll".<ref>{{cite news|last=Voigt|first=Claudia|title=Der schwarze Kern|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=14 January 2013|pages=132–134|language=de}}</ref>
 
The sequel to ''Wolf Hall'', called ''[[Bring Up the Bodies]]'', was published in May 2012 to wide acclaim. It won the [[2012 Costa Book Awards|2012 Costa Book of the Year]] and the [[2012 Man Booker Prize]]; Mantel thus became the first British writer and the first woman to win the [[Booker Prize]] more than once.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/16/163038934/hilary-mantel-first-woman-to-win-booker-prize-twice|first=Elizabeth|last=Blair|title=Hilary Mantel First Woman To Win Booker Prize Twice|newspaper=NPR.org|date=16 October 2012}}</ref><ref name="Bring Up the Bodies Review">{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/05/wolf_hall_sequel_hilary_mantel_s_bring_up_the_bodies_reviewed_.html|work=Slate|title=Hilary Mantel's Heart of Stone|date=4 May 2012|access-date=4 May 2012}}</ref> Mantel was the fourth author to receive the award twice, following [[J.&nbsp;M. Coetzee]], [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] and [[J.&nbsp;G. Farrell]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Clark, Nick |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/booker-prize-2012-hilary-mantel-could-become-first-british-writer-to-win-the-literary-prize-twice-after-bring-up-the-bodies-makes-shortlist-8125426.html |title=Booker Prize 2012: Hilary Mantel could become first British writer to win the literary prize twice after Bring up the Bodies makes shortlist |work=The Independent |date=11 September 2012 |access-date=17 October 2012 |location=London}}</ref><ref name="Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' Wins U.K. Booker Prize, 50,000 Pounds">{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a4993nQqaUFw |work=Bloomberg |title=Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' Wins U.K. Booker Prize, 50,000 Pounds | last= Pressley|first= James |author2= Hephzibah Anderson|date=6 October 2009|access-date=14 May 2012}}</ref> This award also made Mantel the first author to win the award for a sequel.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/books/hilary-mantel-mirror-and-the-light-thomas-cromwell.html|title=For Hilary Mantel, There's No Time Like the Past|date=24 February 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=26 February 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The books were adapted into plays by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] and were produced as a [[Wolf Hall (TV series)|mini-series]] by [[BBC]].<ref name=":0" /> In 2020 Mantel published the third novel of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, called ''[[The Mirror and& the Light]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15788358|title=Hilary Mantel reveals plans for Wolf Hall trilogy|work=BBC News|date=18 November 2011|access-date=13 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20887309 |title=Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Costa novel prize|date=2 January 2013 |access-date=2 January 2013|work=BBC News}}</ref> ''The Mirror and& the Light'' was selected for the longlist for the 2020 Booker Prize.<ref>{{cite web |title=Booker Prize 2020: Hilary Mantel makes longlist |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53557876 |work=BBC News |access-date=28 July 2020 |date=28 July 2020}}</ref>
 
In 2014, Mantel published a collection of 10 short stories, ''[[The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher]]'', which ''The Guardian'' called a "flawed but absorbing selection" singling out the story ''Sorry to Disturb'' for praise.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-09-24 |title=The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher-review-hilary-mantel-collection-short-stories |first=James|last= Lasdun|access-date=2022-11-23 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' described the collection as having "narrators much more outwardly meek and inwardly turbulent than the murderous royals and puppeteers so beloved in her historical fiction".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |title='The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,' by Hilary Mantel - The New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=24 September 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/books/the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher-by-hilary-mantel.html}}</ref> The controversial title story is about an assassin who disguises himself as a plumber and takes over an apartment opposite the hospital where the Prime Minister is undergoing eye surgery. The woman who owns the apartment, and who is in effect a hostage, turns out to be surprisingly sympathetic to the assassin's cause.
 
She was also working on a short non-fiction book, titled ''The Woman Who Died of Robespierre'', about the Polish playwright [[Stanisława Przybyszewska]]. Mantel also wrote reviews and essays, mainly for ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/hilary-mantel |title=Hilary Mantel {{!}} Books |website=The Guardian |access-date=26 May 2017}}</ref> the ''[[London Review of Books]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/hilary-mantel |title=Hilary Mantel · LRB |website=www.lrb.co.uk |access-date=26 May 2017}}</ref> and the ''[[New York Review of Books|The New York Review of Books]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/hilary-mantel/ |title=Hilary Mantel |website=The New York Review of Books |access-date=26 May 2017}}</ref> ''[[The Culture Show]]'' programme on [[BBC Two]] broadcast a profile of Mantel on 17 September 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0152cyz |title=Hilary Mantel: A Culture Show Special |publisher= [[BBC Two]] |access-date=19 May 2012}}</ref>
 
In December 2016, Mantel spoke with ''[[The Kenyon Review]]'' editor David H. Lynn on the KR Podcast<ref name=KRpodcast>Lynn, David H., [https://www.kenyonreview.org/conversation/kr-podcast-with-hilary-mantel/ "KR Podcast with Hilary Mantel"], ''Kenyon Review''.</ref> about the way historical novels are published, what it is like to live in the world of one character for more than ten years, writing for the stage, and the final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, ''The Mirror and& the Light''.<ref name=KRpodcast />
 
She delivered five 2017 [[Reith Lectures]] on [[BBC Radio Four]], talking about the theme of historical fiction.<ref name="Reith-Mantel">
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=== Margaret Thatcher ===
In September 2014, in an interview published in ''[[The Guardian]]'', Mantel said she had fantasised about the murder of the [[British prime minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1983, and fictionalised the event in a short story called "[[The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher|The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: 6 August 1983]]". Allies of Thatcher called for a police investigation, to which Mantel responded: "Bringing in the police for an investigation was beyond anything I could have planned or hoped for, because it immediately exposes them to ridicule."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hilary-mantel-coalition-is-more-brutal-to-poor-and-immigrants-than-thomas-cromwell-9858630.html |location=London |work=The Independent |first=Adam |last=Sherwin |title=Hilary Mantel: Coalition government more brutal to poor and immigrants than Thomas Cromwell was |date=13 November 2014}}</ref>
 
=== Comments on Catholicism ===
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In a 2013 interview with ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', Mantel stated: "I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people. [...] When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst the worst people I knew."<ref name=catholic>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9262955/Hilary-Mantel-Catholic-Church-is-not-for-respectable-people.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Anita |last=Singh |title=Hilary Mantel: Catholic Church is not for respectable people |date=13 May 2012}}</ref> These statements, as well as the themes explored in her earlier novel ''[[Fludd (novel)|Fludd]]'', led the Catholic bishop [[Mark O'Toole (bishop)|Mark O'Toole]] to comment: "There is an [[anti-Catholic]] thread there, there is no doubt about it. ''Wolf Hall'' is not neutral."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholicireland.net/concern-anti-catholic-bias-bbcs-wolf-hall/|title=Concern over anti catholic bias in BBC's Wolf Hall – Catholicireland.net |date=6 February 2015}}</ref>
 
== ListAwards ofand workshonours ==
=== Novels ===
*"Every Day Is Mother's Day" series:
** ''[[Every Day Is Mother's Day]]'': [[Chatto & Windus]], 1985 ({{ISBN|0-7011-2895-X}})
** ''[[Vacant Possession (novel)|Vacant Possession]]'': [[Chatto & Windus]], 1986 ({{ISBN|0-7011-3047-4}})
* ''[[Eight Months on Ghazzah Street]]'': [[Viking Press]], 1988 ({{ISBN|0-8050-5203-8}})
* ''[[Fludd (novel)|Fludd]]'': [[Viking Press]], 1989 ({{ISBN|0-670-82118-7}})
* ''[[A Place of Greater Safety]]'': [[Viking Press]], 1992 ({{ISBN|0-312-42639-9}})
* ''[[A Change of Climate]]'': [[Viking Press]], 1994 ({{ISBN|0-670-83051-8}})
* ''[[An Experiment in Love]]'': [[Viking Press]], 1995<ref>{{cite news |last1=Atwood |first1=Margaret |author1-link=Margaret Atwood |title=Little Chappies With Breasts |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/mantel-experiment.html |access-date=29 September 2022 |work=[[The New York Times Book Review]] |date=June 2, 1996}}</ref>
* ''[[The Giant, O'Brien]]'': [[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 1998 ({{ISBN|1-85702-884-8}})
* ''[[Beyond Black]]'': [[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2005 ({{ISBN|0-00-715775-4}})
* Thomas Cromwell series:
*# ''[[Wolf Hall]]'': [[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2009<ref>{{cite news|author=Benfey, Christopher|author-link=Christopher Benfey|title=Sunday Book Review of ''Wolf Hall'' by Hilary Mantel|date=29 October 2009|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Benfey-t.html}}</ref>
*# ''[[Bring Up the Bodies]]'': [[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2012<ref>{{cite news|author=McGrath, Charles|title=Sunday Book Review of ''Bring Up the Bodies'' by Hilary Mantel|date=25 May 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/bring-up-the-bodies-by-hilary-mantel.html}}</ref>
*# ''[[The Mirror & the Light]]'': [[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 5 March 2020. {{ISBN|978-0007480999}}
 
=== Short story collections ===
* ''[[Learning to Talk]]'' ([[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2003; {{isbn|9780007166442}})
** "King Billy Is a Gentleman"
** "Destroyed"
** "Curved Is the Line of Beauty"
** "Learning to Talk"
** "Third Floor Rising"
** "The Clean Slate"
* ''The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'' ([[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2014; {{ISBN|9780007580989}})<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/01/17/hilary-mantel-to-publish-the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher/ | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=The Style Blog}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Castle, Terry|author-link=Terry Castle|title=Sunday Book Review of ''The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories'' by Hilary Mantel|date=2 October 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/books/review/the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher-by-hilary-mantel.html}}</ref>
** "Sorry to Disturb"
** "Comma"
** "The Long QT"
** "Winter Break"
** "Harley Street"
** "Offences Against the Person"
** "How Shall I Know You?"
** "The Heart Fails Without Warning"
** "Terminus"
** "The School of English"
** "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher"
 
=== Memoir ===
* ''Giving Up the Ghost'' ([[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2003; {{ISBN|9780007148417}})
 
=== Selected articles and essays ===
* [https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-realist-with-wings "A Realist With Wings"], ''[[Literary Review]]'', September 1996
* [https://literaryreview.co.uk/pain-in-the-desert "Pain in the Desert"], ''[[Literary Review]]'', September 1989
* [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n07/hilary-mantel/what-a-man-this-is-with-his-crowd-of-women-around-him! "What a man this is, with his crowd of women around him!"], ''[[London Review of Books]]'', 30 March 2000.
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n05/hilary-mantel/some-girls-want-out "Some Girls Want Out"], ''London Review of Books'', v. 26 no. 5, pg 14–18, 4 March 2004.
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/hilary-mantel/diary "Diary"], ''London Review of Books'', 4 November 2010.
* [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n10/hilary-mantel/kinsella-in-his-hole "Kinsella in His Hole - A Story"], ''London Review of Books'', 19 May 2016.
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies "Royal Bodies"], ''London Review of Books'', 21 February 2013.
* [http://ioc.sagepub.com/content/45/3/64.extract "Blot, erase, delete: How the author found her voice and why all writers should resist the urge to change their past words"], ''Index Censorship'', September 2016.
 
== Awards and honours ==
=== Literary prizes ===
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=== Honours ===
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*[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2006 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/honorary-awards/hillary-mantel-cbe|title=Hilary Mantel CBE|publisher=[[Sheffield Hallam University]]|access-date=27 September 2022|archive-date=29 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929212026/https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/honorary-awards/hillary-mantel-cbe|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2009 Honorary [[DLitt]] from [[Sheffield Hallam University]]<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.shu.ac.uk/_assets/pdf/newview-winter-09.pdf | title=Hallam's Class of 2009 | author=<!-- no byline; staff writer(s) --> | journal=Newview | pages=14 | date=Winter 2009 | publisher=Sheffield Hallam University}}</ref>
* 2011 Honorary DLitt from the [[University of Exeter]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.exeter.ac.uk/honorarygraduates/2011/honorarygraduates/ceremony2/ |title=Honorary graduates 2011–12 |publisher=University of Exeter |date=17 July 2011 |access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
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* 2015 Honorary [[LLD]] from the [[London School of Economics]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/2022/hilary-mantel | title=LSE Hilary Mantel obituary | publisher=London School of Economics | date=23 September 2022 | access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref>
* 2015 Honorary DLitt from the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-02-19-oxford-announces-honorary-degrees-2015 | title=Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2015 | publisher=University of Oxford | date=19 February 2015 | access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
* 2015 Honorary degree from [[Oxford Brookes University]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/inspirational-honorary-graduates-announced/ | title=Inspirational Honorary Graduates announced | publisher=Oxford Brookes University | date=3 June 2015 | access-date=30 January 2016 | archive-date=19 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819082036/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/inspirational-honorary-graduates-announced/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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== List of works ==
 
=== Novels ===
* ''{{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[AnEight ExperimentMonths inon LoveGhazzah Street]]'': |year=1988 |publisher=[[Viking Press]], 1995|ISBN=9780805052039}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Atwood |first1=Margaret |author1-link=Margaret Atwood |date=June 2, 1996 |title=Little Chappies With Breasts |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/mantel-experiment.html |access-date=29 September 2022 |work=[[The New York Times Book Review]] |date=June 2, 1996}}</ref>
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Fludd (novel)|Fludd]] |year=1989 |publisher=[[Viking Press]] |ISBN=9780670821181}}
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[A Place of Greater Safety]] |year=1992 |publisher=[[Viking Press]] |ISBN=9780312426392}}
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[A Change of Climate]] |year=1994 |publisher=[[Viking Press]] |ISBN=9780670830510}}
*# ''{{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[WolfAn HallExperiment in Love]]'': |year=1995 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|FourthViking EstatePress]], 2009|isbn=9780670859221}}<ref>{{cite news |author=Benfey, Christopher |author-link=Christopher Benfey |date=29 October 2009 |title=Sunday Book Review of ''Wolf Hall'' by Hilary Mantel|date=29 October 2009|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Benfey-t.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[The Giant, O'Brien]] |year=1998 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]] |ISBN=9781857028843|edition=hardcover}}
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Beyond Black]] |year=2005 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]] |ISBN=9780007157754|edition=hardcover}}
 
*"==== ''Every Day Is Mother's Day"'' series:====
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Every Day Is Mother's Day]] |year=1985 |publisher=[[Chatto & Windus]] |ISBN=070112895X}}
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Vacant Possession (novel)|Vacant Possession]] |year=1986 |publisher=[[Chatto & Windus]] |ISBN=0701130474}}
 
*==== ''Thomas Cromwell'' series: ====
*# ''[[Bring{{cite Upbook the|first=Hilary Bodies|last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Wolf Hall]]'': |year=2009 |isbn=9780805080681 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]],}} 2012<ref>{{cite news |author=McGrath, Charles |date=25 May 2012 |title=Sunday Book Review of ''Bring Up the Bodies'' by Hilary Mantel|date=25 May 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/bring-up-the-bodies-by-hilary-mantel.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Bring Up the Bodies]] |year=2012 |isbn=9780805090031 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]]}}
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[The Mirror & the Light]] |year=2020 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]] |ISBN=9780007480999}}
 
=== Short story collections ===
* ''{{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Learning to Talk]]'' (|year=2003 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2003; {{isbn|ISBN=9780007166442}})
* ''{{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'']] (|year=2014 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]], 2014; {{|ISBN|=9780007580989}})<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/01/17/hilary-mantel-to-publish-the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher/ | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=The Style Blog}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Castle, Terry|author-link=Terry Castle|title=Sunday Book Review of ''The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories'' by Hilary Mantel|date=2 October 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/books/review/the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher-by-hilary-mantel.html}}</ref>
 
=== Memoir ===
* {{cite book |first=Hilary |last=Mantel |author-mask=2 |title=[[Giving Up the Ghost (Mantel novel)|Giving Up the Ghost]] |year=2003 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]] |ISBN=9780007148417}}
=== Selected articles and essays ===
* [https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-realist-with-wings "A Realist With Wings"], ''[[Literary Review]]'', September 1996
* [https://literaryreview.co.uk/pain-in-the-desert "Pain in the Desert"], ''[[Literary Review]]'', September 1989
* [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n07/hilary-mantel/what-a-man-this-is-with-his-crowd-of-women-around-him! "What a man this is, with his crowd of women around him!"], ''[[London Review of Books]]'', 30 March 2000.
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n05/hilary-mantel/some-girls-want-out "Some Girls Want Out"], ''London Review of Books'', v. 26 no. 5, pg 14–18, 4 March 2004.
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/hilary-mantel/diary "Diary"], ''London Review of Books'', 4 November 2010.
* [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n10/hilary-mantel/kinsella-in-his-hole "Kinsella in His Hole - A Story"], ''London Review of Books'', 19 May 2016.
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies "Royal Bodies"], ''London Review of Books'', 21 February 2013.
* [http://ioc.sagepub.com/content/45/3/64.extract "Blot, erase, delete: How the author found her voice and why all writers should resist the urge to change their past words"], ''Index Censorship'', September 2016.
*''Mantel Pieces''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mantel Pieces|url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/mantel-pieces/|access-date=16 January 2024 |website=Book Marks}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mantel Pieces Reviews |url=https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/reviews/mantel-pieces|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927111259/https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/reviews/mantel-pieces|archive-date=27 Sep 2021|access-date=11 July 2024 |website=Books in the Media}}</ref>
*''A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing''<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing|url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/a-memoir-of-my-former-self-a-life-in-writing/|access-date=16 January 2024 |website=Book Marks}}</ref>
 
== References ==
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* {{Official website|http://hilary-mantel.com}}
* [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gm8d1h/ Hilary Mantel Papers] — [[Huntington Library]]
* Hilary Mantel. [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04contributors/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies ''Royal Bodies''Profile] 2013 February 21 ·at ''[[London Review of Books]]'' Vol. 35 No. 4 <!-- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/02/hilary-mantel-vs-kate-middleton/318216/ https://davidlabaree.com/2021/03/11/hilary-mantel-royal-bodies/ -->
* [https://www.lrbnybooks.co.ukcom/contributors/hilary-mantel/ Mantel articles archiveProfile] at ''London[[The New York Review of Books]]''
* [httphttps://www.nybooksnewyorker.com/authorsmagazine/40 Mantel articles2012/10/15/the-dead-are-real archiveProfile] atin ''[[The New YorkYorker|''The ReviewNew of Books]]Yorker'']]
* Hilary Mantel. [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies ''Royal Bodies''] 2013 February 21 · ''[[London Review of Books]]'' Vol. 35 No. 4<!-- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/02/hilary-mantel-vs-kate-middleton/318216/ https://davidlabaree.com/2021/03/11/hilary-mantel-royal-bodies/ -->
* [http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/author/hilarymantel/ Articles by Hilary Mantel] on her publisher's blog, ''5th Estate''
*{{cite interview |interviewer=Mona Simpson |title=Hilary Mantel, Art of Fiction No. 226 |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel |date=Spring 2015 |periodical=[[The Paris Review]] |issue=212}}
* [http://abc.com.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2393914.htm Interview] with [[Ramona Koval]], The Book Show, [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] [[Radio National]], 2008-10-21
* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-dead-are-real Profile] in [[The New Yorker|''The New Yorker'' magazine]]
* {{Muckrack}}
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[[Category:Recipients of the President's Medal (British Academy)]]
[[Category:Walter Scott Prize winners]]
[[Category:WomenBritish women historical novelists]]
[[Category:British women literary critics]]
[[Category:Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period]]