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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2010 | Winner | “The inaugural prize goes to the novel that has redefined the historical novel in English — a triumph of imagination, scholarship, and prose.” |
| Booker Prize | 2009 | Winner | |
| National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)Fiction | 2009 | Winner |
About This Book
The first volume of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, Wolf Hall dramatises the rise of Cromwell—son of a blacksmith who became chief minister to Henry VIII—through the intrigues of the Tudor court in the late 1520s and early 1530s. Mantel's radical narrative choice to render Cromwell in the second person creates an uncanny sense of being inside a great historical mind.
About the Author
Hilary Mantel was born on July 6, 1952, in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, and died on September 22, 2022. She studied law at Sheffield University and the London School of Economics before turning to fiction. Her first novel Every Day Is Mother's Day was published in 1985. Read more →
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