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Hilary Mantel

1952 - 2022

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Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. 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 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 VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hilary Mantel is the 3,836th most popular writer (down from 3,221st in 2019), the 3,027th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,338th in 2019) and the 345th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Hilary Mantel ranks 3,836 out of 7,302. Before her are Elias Khoury, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Milán Füst, Jiří Wolker, Juan José Saer, and Said Akl. After her are Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Abdurauf Fitrat, Katherine Paterson, Huseyn Javid, Pyotr Tkachev, and Delia Owens.

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Among people born in 1952, Hilary Mantel ranks 277. Before her are Clayton Christensen, Bora Đorđević, Dumitru Prunariu, Klaus Teuber, Udo Voigt, and Abdalá Bucaram. After her are Henry Selick, Miyuki Nakajima, Johanna Klier, Moya Brennan, Chiaki Mukai, and Valeri Tokarev. Among people deceased in 2022, Hilary Mantel ranks 280. Before her are Ivan Dziuba, Leslie Phillips, Manuel Ojeda, Karl Vaino, Mišo Cebalo, and Christopher Alexander. After her are Vittorio Adorni, Greg Bear, Máté Fenyvesi, Yoko Shimada, Sacheen Littlefeather, and Loretta Lynn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hilary Mantel ranks 3,028 out of 8,785. Before her are Nancy Mitford (1904), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Joseph Aspdin (1778), Lullus (710), Paul Cook (1956), and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841). After her are Würzel (1949), Rosamund Clifford (1150), Jamie Carragher (1978), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), Paul Johnson (1928), and Margaret of England (1240).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Hilary Mantel ranks 345. Before her are Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), Peter Cheyney (1896), John Ford (1586), Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915), Peter Mayle (1939), and Nancy Mitford (1904). After her are Paul Johnson (1928), Graham Hancock (1950), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Richard Hammond (1969), Andrew Marvell (1621), and Israel Zangwill (1864).

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