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Dame Hilary Mantel

(1952-2022), Novelist and critic

Sitter in 3 portraits
British novelist and travel writer Mantel was born in Derbyshire, and lived and worked in Botswana and Saudi Arabia. Her novels included Vacant Possession (1986) and A Place of Greater Safety (1992). She won the Man Booker prize twice for her historical novels, Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012), the first two instalments of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The final part, The Mirror & the Light, was published in 2020 to huge critical acclaim.

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Dame Hilary Mantel, by Sally Soames - NPG P645

Dame Hilary Mantel

by Sally Soames
bromide print, 1992
NPG P645

Dame Hilary Mantel, by Richard Ansett - NPG x202505

Dame Hilary Mantel

by Richard Ansett
chromogenic print, 2017
NPG x202505

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