FILE PHOTO: Author Hilary Mantel speaks during a presentation of her new novel The Mirror & the Light at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Britain, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
LONDON (Reuters) -Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author of the award-winning "Wolf Hall" Tudor trilogy, died peacefully on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Friday.
"Wolf Hall", published in 2009, and its sequel "Bring Up the Bodies", published three years later, together sold more than 5 million copies worldwide and both won the Booker Prize, an unprecedented win for two books in the same trilogy.
