Popular writer of Irish descent Hillary Mandel he died “suddenly but calmly” at the age of 70.
This was announced by the publishing house HarperCollins in its announcement. “It is with great sadness that AM Heath and HarperCollins announce that DBE bestselling author Hilary Mandel passed away suddenly Thursday at the age of 70, surrounded by family and friends. Hilary Mandel was one of the greatest British writers of this century, and her favorite work is considered a classic. He will be greatly missed.”
The author was best known for her epic Wolf Hall trilogy, of which Diarmaid Maculloch, Oxford divinity professor and biographer of Thomas Cromwell, said: “Hilary changed historical standards through the way she represented man.”
He won the Booker Prize twice for Wolf Hall and the sequel Bring the Bodies, which also won Book of the Year in 2012.
The last part of the trilogy, called “Mirror and Light”, was released in 2020 and was an instant success. It became an instant best-seller in the novel category and won the Walter Scott Award for Historical Fiction.
To date, the Wolf Hall Trilogy has been translated into 41 languages and has sold over 5 million copies worldwide.
Hilary Mandel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on July 6, 1952. She studied law at the London School of Economics and the University of Sheffield. He worked as a social worker and lived in Botswana for five years, before that he lived in Saudi Arabia. In the mid-1980s he returned to the UK.
Mandel married geologist Gerald McEwan in September 1972.
According to Telegraph, Reuters
Source: Kathimerini
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