Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for 'Wolf Hall' in 2009 and its sequel 'Bring Up the Bodies' in 2012. Both were adapted for the stage and television.
LONDON — Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed"Wolf Hall" saga of historical novels, has died. She was 70.
Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with"Wolf Hall" and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII."Her beloved works are considered modern classics. She will be greatly missed," it said in a statement. Mantel turned Cromwell, a shadowy political fixer, into a compelling, complex literary hero. Cromwell was an architect of the Reformation who helped the king realize his desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. The Vatican's refusal to annul Henry's first marriage led the monarch to reject the authority of the pope and install himself as head of the Church of England.
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