Hilary Mantel heeft na de de Man booker prize en de Costa Book Award nu ook de David Cohen prize for literature 2013 gekregen. De David Cohen prize for literature is een bekroning van een oeuvre en wordt gezien als de ‘British Nobel’. Mantel schreef dertien boeken waaronder korte verhalen, novellen, memoires en historische romans. Juryvoorzitter Mark Lawson over de keuze voor Mantel:

While the judges were as impressed as most readers by Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, it is our particular hope that this prize for three decades of dedication to the possibilities of narrative imagination and English prose will direct attention to such earlier works as the novels Fludd, A Change of Climate and Beyond Black and the autobiography Giving Up The Ghost (…)