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Novelist and critic
United Kingdom · 1952–2022
English novelist, best known for the Thomas Cromwell trilogy of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light. She won the Booker Prize twice, in 2009 and 2012, and also wrote criticism and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost.
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Some writers claim to extrude a book at an even rate like toothpaste from a tube, or to build a story like a wall, so many feet per day. They sit at their desk and knock off their word quota, then frisk into their leisured evening, preening themselves. This is so alien to me that it might be another trade entirely.
Recorded The Guardian, 'My writing day' series, 16 April 2016 source
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