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British author of ‘Wolf Hall’ saga Hilary Mantel dies at 70

Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga, has died. She was 70.

Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends.

Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell.

In a statement released on Twitter, publisher 4th Estate paid tribute to ‘our beloved author’ and described her loss as ‘devastating’.

She is understood to have died ‘suddenly yet peacefully’ on Thursday 22 September.

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