Mantel’s achievements prior to the Cromwell trilogy had already earned her a CBE in the 2006 Birthday Honours, and she was made a DBE in 2014 for services to literature.
She became the first woman to receive the Booker Prize twice (Margaret Attwood has since matched the achievement), and remains the only writer to win the award with a sequel.Ī victory for The Mirror and the Light (something one review described as “a shoo-in”) would make her the first author to win three Booker Prizes. “This book has been the greatest challenge of my writing life, and the most rewarding I hope and trust my readers will find it has been worth the wait.” The publication of Wolf Hall in 2009 started the celebrated trilogyĪlthough already a highly-respected and multi-award-winning author, the huge success of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies catapulted Mantel to literary stardom.
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