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Hilary Mary Mantel (born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work ranges in subject from personal memoir and short story to historical fiction and essay.She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize.

She won her first Booker Prize for the 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII. She won her second Booker Prize for the 2012 novel, Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G. Farrell (who posthumously won the Lost Man Booker Prize). The Mirror and the Light is the title of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy's final installment.