Remembering Hilary Mantel
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Dame Hilary Mantel died on 22 September 2022 at the age of 70. Her acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy - which brought the life of Thomas Cromwell so vividly to life - has sold more than five million copies worldwide. She won the Booker Prize twice - for Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and History Hit's Dan Snow pay tribute to one of the greatest English-language novelists of our century.
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| 1:04.6 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. |
| 1:07.0 | Sad news for all of us in the history community. |
| 1:10.2 | Dame Hillary Mantell has died aged 70. |
| 1:14.4 | She was most famous for winning the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for the first two of her |
| 1:22.4 | cromwell trilogy, Wolf Hall, and Bring Up the Bodies. The Mirror and the Light was longlisted |
| 1:28.8 | remarkably for the booker as well. I think they're three of the best books that I have ever read. |
| 1:35.2 | In an author's note, she wrote in one of her three cromwell trilogies, |
| 1:39.1 | she says that Professor Susanna Lipscomb was inspiration to her books on Henry VIII, |
| 1:44.4 | who were really important to Hillary Mantell's understanding of the period. |
| 1:47.7 | Incredibly high praise. Someone, of course, on History Hit, we know and love very well. |
| 1:52.4 | Professor Susanna Lipscomb is been on this podcast many times. She's a great friend and colleague of mine. |
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