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The sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, won this year's Man Booker Prize. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. But strangely, because he has been left out of the popular narrative, when you look through Cromwell's eyes, this material which seems so very familiar to us becomes unfamiliar." In reality, Mantel says Cromwell was the "minister of everything": "He is powerful for almost 10 years, so he's the man who knows how everything works.

Mantel tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that she was interested in dramatizing Cromwell because, despite being the king's right-hand man, he is marginal and sometimes even missing in fictional reimaginings of Henry VIII's reign. In Bring Up the Bodies, Mantel traces the downfall and beheading of Boleyn, as seen through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, an influential minister in King Henry's court. Among the king's reasons for breaking away from the church was his desire to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and marry Anne Boleyn. It ended with the beheading of Lord Chancellor Thomas More, King Henry VIII's counselor, after he opposed the king's decision to break away from the Roman Catholic Church. Wolf Hall was the first in Mantel's historical fiction trilogy about Tudor England. She had previously been awarded the prize - England's highest literary honor - for her 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, and is now the first woman to receive the award twice.

This year, Hilary Mantel made history when she won a Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bring Up The Bodies Author Hilary Mantel