Hilary Mantel
Women's Prize For Fiction shortlisted authors (L-R) A M Homes, Barbara Kingslover, Kate Atkinson, Maria Semple, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith pose for photographs at a photo call prior to the award ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London on June 5, 2013.
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Once she gets over being sick, the press will find that she is radiant. They will find that this young woman’s life until now was nothing, her only point and purpose being to give birth
I wouldn’t dream of commenting on Hilary Mantel as a novelist, frankly I’d be grateful if she stayed off my patch as a historian ... She is intelligent, she is bright, she is an admirable writer. I happen to find her Tudor novels unreadable, but that’s because I am a Tudor historian.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Mantel, Kingsolver on Women's Prize shortlist
-- Hilary Mantel, Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith are among three British authors and three Americans shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction.Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies," Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior" and Smith 's "NW" are finalists for the award, Read more »
Around the web
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Hilary Mantel given honorary degree by Cambridge University
Prize winner was among a group of eight that were awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University on Wednesday. Hilary Mantel – who has won the Man Booker Prize twice, in 2009 and 2012 – was made a Doctor of Letters by the university for her national and 11:58 AM from Cambridge Evening News Read more »
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Contest - Win Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies and Wolf Hall and a $100 Threadless Gift Certificate
reading season is upon us, and one of the books I am anxious to finally read is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, her sequel to Wolf Hall. For a chance at winning these books book and a $100 Threadless gift certificate, leave a comment with the book you from largehearted boy Read more »
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Tan Twan Eng beats Hilary Mantel to win £25,000 prize for historical fiction
Front in World War One. The judging panel for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize comprised Kirsty Wark, Louise Richardson, Jonathan Tweedie, Elizabeth Laird and Elizabeth Buccleuch. The chair of judges was Alistair Moffat. Bring up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel from The Telegraph Read more »
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Author A.M. Homes wins Women’s Fiction Prize
â U.S. writer A.M. Homes won the Womenâs Prize for Fiction for âMay We Be Forgivenâ last week, beating the favorite Hilary Mantel and four other novelists. The dark domestic satire in which two brothers navigate murder, madness and redemption in the suburbs from Montreal Gazette Read more »
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Bring Up the Bodies (Excerpt)
a certain fantasy series everyone seems to be talking about (you know, that one with a Khaleesi), so we're excerpting Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels! We've already taken a peek at Wolf Hall, so here's a chapter from : Though he battled for seven from Tor: Science Fiction Blog Read more »
