Hilary Mantel: Greatest Novelist of Our Time? | ORIGINAL TAG (Women's Prize 2020)

Hilary Mantel, with THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT, the concluding part of the Wolf Hall series about Thomas Cromwell, has just landed on the Women's Prize 2020 Longlist. It is also certain that THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT would reach the Longlist and the Shortlist of the Booker Prize 2020. Dame Hilary could also become the first author in publishing history to win three Booker Prizes. So, could she be the greatest novelist of our time?

In this video, I'm using the five lessons I learned from reading and studying Hilary Mantel to declare her as the greatest novelist of the moment. This is also an Original Tag video for everyone within the BookTube and AuthorTube communities. To start this, I'm tagging the following five BookTubers:

1. Sophie at Portal In The Pages.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUaOphKqP0b8QgKDCh8Mgg
2. Jasmine at Jasmine's Reads.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR8YWz5VDrrc_bwE3llW4aQ
3. Britta Bohler.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQsLKy0bh9hRZ3AWQzG-7g
4. Eric Karl Anderson.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOfhQvPzZ7ALqeXa8NleHQ/videos
5. Steve Donoghue.
https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue/videos

If you are tagged, all you have to do is as follows: Who do you regard as the greatest novelist of our time. And discuss the five lessons you learned from this novelist with regards to literature, novel writing, storytelling, life or any other matter!

My other video that discusses Hilary Mantel:
1. Vacations with Your Favorite Authors (Original Tag)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpf98pf1lC0

2. Slumdog Millionaire ("I Love the Book! I Love The Movie" Tag | Top 10 Book To Movie Adaptations of the 21st Century )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo1vAdFsgdc

SOURCES:
Hilary Mantel's Novels
1. Every Day is Mother's Day
2. Vacant Possession
3. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
4. Fludd
5. A Place of Greater Safety
6. A Change of Climate
7. An Experiment in Love
8. The Giant, O'Brien
9. Beyond Black

Thomas Cromwell Series:
10. Wolf Hall: Fourth Estate
11. Bring Up the Bodies

Short stories
1. Learning to Talk
2. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

Memoir
Giving Up the Ghost

Other Sources:
1. Hephzibah Anderson's 2009 article
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/19/hilary-mantel-man-booker

2. Larissa MacFarquhar's 2012 profile of Hilary Mantel:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-dead-are-real

3. Hilary Mantel on Norway TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LpzUvJ74C8

4. Hilary Mantel's Honorary Doctorate acceptance speech at Oxford Brookes University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIcALBeLgg


5. Hilary Mantel and Fay Weldon: The Courage of Women Writers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uxM8enAx5Y

6. Lecture: Hilary Mantel: “I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There” (The Huntington)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEXatV1hqZo

7. Alex Clark's article in The Guardian (Feb 2020):
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/22/hilary-mantel-ive-got-quite-amused-at-people-saying-i-have-writers-block-ive-been-like-a-factory

The Hilary Mantel photo on this video's thumbnail from Harper Collins.

MUSIC (from YouTube's Audio Library):
1. 'A to the O' by Diamond Ortiz.
2. 'Emotional Aftermath' by Doug Maxwell & Media Right Productions.

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