Broadcaster Jan Rogers, a close friend of Dame Hilary Mantel, pays tribute to the late author
A close friend of Dame Hilary Mantel has paid tribute to the "attentive, generous and very funny" Wolf Hall author, following her death, aged 70.
The 71-year-old, from Nottingham, described Dame Hilary as a "forensic thinker" with a passion for "fairness" and "all things intellectual".Dame Hilary, who was born in Derbyshire, won the prestigious honour for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Cromwell series, and for the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies in 2012.
"She was very aware of what the other person was going through, she never forgot to ask what was going on, she was extremely kind, generous and very funny. "She didn't want to write about relationships and emotions, she wanted to write about ideas, thoughts and how people got things done.
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