Mantel became famous especially for the historical Thomas Cromwell trilogy. She was the first woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize twice.
Mantel won the prestigious Booker Prize twice. He was awarded for the first time in 2009 for the book ). Mantel was the first female author to win the Booker twice.
Born in 1952, Hilary Mantel studied law and then worked in the social sector. Between 1987 and 1991, he was a film critic for the Spectator magazine.
In his youth, he lived for five years in Botswana and four years in Saudi Arabia.
Mantel’s first novel was published in 1985. The work is a black comedy, for which Mantel got material from his own work experiences as a social worker at a chronic hospital.
In his memoirs, Mantel tells about his youth and a painful illness, which was initially diagnosed as a psychiatric illness, but later turned out to be endometriosis.