Hilary Mantel

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Literary career

Every Day Is Mother's Day was published in 1985, and its sequel, Vacant Possession, was published a year later. She moved to England and became a film critic of The Spectator, a job she held from 1987 to 1991, as well as a reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines in Britain and the United States.

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), the author's third book, reflected on her life in Saudi Arabia. It examines the tensions between Islamic culture and the modern West in a city apartment block. Fluddd, her Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize-winning book, is set in 1956 in a fictional northern village called Fetherhoughton, centring on a Roman Catholic church and a convent. Transformations in the lives of those around him are brought about by a mystery stranger.

When A.S. Byatt's book Possession was rewarded, Mantel was a judge for the Booker Prize in 1990.

A Place of Greater Safety (1992), a children's book of the Year nominee, was shortlisted for her two previous books. It's a long and historically accurate book that follows three French revolutionaries, Danton, Robespierre, and Camille Desmoulins, from childhood to their early lives during the Reign of Terror of 1794.

A Change of Climate (1994), set in rural Norfolk, explores Ralph and Anna Eldred's lives as they raise their four children and dedicate their lives to charity. It contains chapters about their early married life as missionaries in South Africa, when they were arrested and transferred to Bechuanaland and sent there.

The Hawthornden Prize's 1996 experiment An Experiment in Love (1996), which received the Hawthornden Prize, was held over two university terms. It comes after three girls – two friends and one enemy – left home and attended university in London. Margaret Thatcher appears in this book, which explores women's interests and aspirations, as well as how they are often defeated. Despite the fact that Mantel used personal information, it is not an autobiographical book.

Her next book, The Giant, O'Brien (1998), is set in the 1780s and is based on Charles Byrne's true life (or O'Brien). He came to London to earn money by presenting himself as a freak. His remains are on display in the Royal College of Surgeons Museum today. In a gritty and violent fairy tale, O'Brien and his villain, Scot surgeon John Hunter, are less as protagonists in history than as heroic heroes of the Age of Enlightenment. In a play starring Alex Norton (as Hunter) and Frances Tomelty, she adapted the book for BBC Radio 4.

Mantel's memoir, Seeing Up the Ghost, which was a finalist for the MIND "Book of the Year" award in 2003, was published in 2003. Learning To Talk, a short story collection, was released earlier this year. Both the stories revolve around childhood, and taken together, the books reveal how the events of a life are represented as fiction. Beyond Black, Michelle Black's 2005 book, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Booker Award in 2005. It was "the book that should have won the Booker," author Pat Barker said. Alison Hart, a trained medium whose calm and jolly exterior masks grotesque psychic harm, is set in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She follows around with her troupe of "fiends," who are invisible but always on the brink of becoming flesh.

Wolf Hall, Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim. Mantel said, "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air" after winning the book that year. Wolf Hall's winning judges were voted three to two in favour of the award. During an evening dinner at the Guildhall, London, Mantel was awarded a trophy and a £50,000 cash prize. Wolf Hall was described by the panel, led by broadcaster James Naughtie, as a "extraordinary piece of fiction." Leading up to the award, the book was praised as the favorite by bookmakers and accounts for 45% of the nominated books' sales. It was the first favorite since 2002 to win the award. Mantel said she would spend the money on "sex and opioids, and rock'n' roll" after winning the award.

Bring Up the Bodies, Wolf Hall's sequel, was released in May 2012 to widespread acclaim. Mantel became the first British writer and the first woman to win the Booker Award more than once during the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and the 2012 Booker Prize. Following J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, and J. G. Farrell, Mantel was the fourth author to receive the award twice. Mantel was also named the first author to receive the award for a sequel as a result of this award. The books were turned into Royal Shakespeare Company plays and were released by the BBC as a mini-series. The Mirror and the Sun, Mantel's third book in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, was released in 2020. The mirror and the light were chosen for the longlist for the 2020 Booker Award.

She was also working on a short non-fiction book titled The Woman Who Died of Robespierre about Polish playwright Stanisewska. Mantel has contributed to newspapers and essays, mainly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books. On Saturday, the Culture Show programme on BBC Two broadcast a profile of Mantel.

Mantel talked with Kenyon Review editor David H. Lynn on the KR Podcast about how historical novels are published, what it is like to live in the world of one character for more than ten years, scripting for the stage, and the final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Sun.

On BBC Radio Four, she gave five Reith Lectures in 2017, addressing the topic of historical fiction. Her final one of these lectures was on the subject of historical novels being adapted for stage or film. Mantel's lectures were selected by its producer, Jim Frank, as one of the best of the long-running series.

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