Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mary mantle CBE [ mæntɛl ] ( born July 6, 1952 as Hilary Mary Thompson in Glossop, Derbyshire ) is an English writer, critic and lawyer.

Life

Coat grew up in a large Irish Catholic family that lived for two generations in England, of which the first six years with her Irish grandmother and great-aunt, whose endless stream of words and vocabulary they soaked up. After the separation of her parents, Margaret and Henry Thompson, took them eleven years the name of her stepfather, Jack jacket on. The family background is the driving force of most of their novels. Themes of her novels are about the " rotten compromise the people's church " and the " panic fantasies of Islamic fundamentalism " ( as Patrick Bahners ).

Coat studied law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Sheffield in 1973 and made her bachelor's degree. She first worked as a social worker. In 1974 she began writing.

In 1972 she married and lived from 1977 with her husband Gerald McEwen five years in Botswana, after four years in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. 1987 to 1991 she worked as a film critic for the Spectator. The Royal Shakespeare Company intends her novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies in 2013 in Stratford -upon-Avon to bring to the stage, the BBC is planning a six-part series Cromwell.

Awards

In 1987 she was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize in 1996, the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the same year she was awarded the Commander's Cross (English commander ) of the Order of the British Empire awarded.

2009 received her novel Wolf ( Wolf Hall ) with the Booker Prize the most important English literary prize. 2012 was also the continuation of this novel, Hawks (Bring up the Bodies ), which won the Booker Prize. This jacket after the South African JM Coetzee and the Australian Peter Carey is the third person who won the award twice. For Bring up the Bodies they received which includes the Costa Book Award in 2012.

Works

  • Every Day is Mother's Day, 1985
  • Vacant Possession, 1986
  • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, 1988
  • Fludd, 1989
  • A Place of Greater Safety, 1992 Brothers, German Kathrin Razum and Sabine Roth, DuMont, Cologne, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8321-9661-5
  • Bracing climate, dt by Silvia Morawetz, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-8105-1245-1; Other formats:. rain over the desert, the same translation, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3- 596-15295 -X
  • A love experiment, German by Silvia Morawetz, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main. 1997 ISBN 3-8105-1247-8. ; Other formats:. Carmel's looking for love, same translation, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3- 596-14664 -X
  • The Giant O'Brien, dt Charlotte Breuer, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main, 2002. ISBN 3-8105-1266-4
  • Wolves, German by Christiane Trabant, DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9593-9
  • Hawks, German by Werner holes Lawrence, Dumont, Cologne, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8321-9698-1
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