Dame Hilary Mantel, DBE

Novelist

Hilary Mantel became the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice in 2012 when Bring Up the Bodies followed its predecessor Wolf Hall to secure the prestigious award. 2015 saw Mantel largely out of the public eye and working on The Mirror and the Light, the impatiently-awaited final part of her trilogy charting the life of Oliver Cromwell, which is set for release in 2016. Mantel read Law at LSE before transferring to the University of Sheffield, and began writing her first novel soon after graduating. She’s been winning accolades ever since for works including hard-hitting novel Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, inspired by her four years in Saudi Arabia, and more recently her controversial short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, which was nominated for the BBC’s National Short Story Award in 2015. 

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