Author of internationally successful historical novels, she was 70 years old. Among her titles, “Wolf Hall”, the opening title of a triad on the Tudors, and “The secret history of the revolution”
British writer Hilary Mantel died at the age of 70. She had won the Booker Prize twice and his books had been translated into some forty languages. his disappearance, announced by agents and the Harper Collins publishing house, took place “suddenly but peacefully”. In Italy his books, highly successful historical novels, are published by Fazi (here the interview with Annachiara Sacchi for «la Lettura» #).
Born in Derbyshire in 1952, Hilary Mantel wrote 13 novelsincluding the successful trilogy on the Tudor dynasty, composed by Wolf Hall, Anna Bolena, a family matter (both awarded the Man Booker Prize) e The mirror and the light. From the first two volumes, the BBC has drawn the TV series Wolf Hallwhich won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best Miniseries.
In addition to the trilogy, in Italy he published also The secret history of the Revolutionan impressive three-volume work on the French Revolution, Beyond the blacka black comedy with a contemporary setting, e Eight months on Ghazzah Streetan autobiographical novel set in the Saudi world e A love experiment.
Beware of female conditionknown for her counter-current positions, often criticized by academic historians, in an interview with “la Lettura” summed up her reading of a key historical period in England, the reign of Henry VIII: “The crucial problem of reign of Henry VIII it is in women and in their bodies: their concessions, refusals, success or failure as generators. The king needs a son and only a woman can give it to him, but which one? Six wives take turns, two die without a head. Cromwell is beheaded the day Henry marries the fifth. Yet despite the fact that women were “measured” by their reproductive capacity, many were brilliant, unconventional. It was very tiring for me to live alongside them without projecting the demands of our century onto that era: the anger is theirs, not mine. ” And on the monarchy in general, she had been drastic: “Better without a monarch. It is unfair to the country and unfair to the sovereign. Nobody should be in that position. ‘
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