Despite her comments on the Duchess of Cambridge's "mannequin" image, Hilary Mantel is honoured by The Queen
Hilary Mantel, who won her second Booker Prize in 2012 for her historical novel Bring Up The Bodies, the sequel to Wolf Hall, becomes a Dame of the British Empire.
It comes despite the controversy she attracted after saying that the Duchess of Cambridge was forced by palace officials to present herself as a “shop window mannequin” without personality, whose sole purpose was to deliver an heir to the throne.
Hilary Mantel is working on the final part of her trilogy
Mantel, whose novels about the life of Thomas Cromwell have been critical and commercial successes, already has a CBE. She said: “I’m delighted to receive this honour. It’s given for 'services to literature,’ but I see it not so much as a reward for the past, more as encouragement for the future. It means a great deal to have my efforts recognised, especially as I feel I’ve come to a new phase in my creative life. I hope it will please the many people who have helped, guided and encouraged me over a writing career of some 30 years.”
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MONDAY JUNE 16! BLOOMSDAY!
Auckland’s fabulous literary cabaret Bloomsday is on again, Monday June 16, at the Thirsty Dog, Karangahape Rd, 7.30pm.
This year’s Bloomsday sees epic sandals and skirts soap stars Lucy Lawless and Michael Hurst united as part of the international tribute to James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses.
Joyce’s 750-page comic novel is celebrated in pubs the world over on June 16, the world’s sole annual commemoration of a date in which something happened only in a book.
On that single all-including day Joyce re-imagines Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey unfolding its ten Mediterranean years out onto the streets and seaside and red-light district of Dublin, 1904, as Leopold Bloom, Dublin Jew, wanders the town.
It’s a day now celebrated as “Bloomsday” and in Auckland it’s remembered in the middle of Auckland’s red-light district on K Rd.
Lucy Lawless will be making a guest appearance as Molly Bloom, faithless wife, reading from Molly’s extraordinary and explicit 50-page soliloquy.
Previous Auckland Mollys have been Robyn Malcolm, Carmel McGlone and Noelle McCarthy.
Michael Hurst will be playing Joyce’s alter ego, Stephen Dedalus.
Bloom will be played by resident Grey Lynn ace musician Hershal Herscher, complete with Brooklyn (NY) accent.
The world-renowned Auckland show has been appearing every June 16 since 2001.
Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday, Thirsty Dog Tavern, Karangahape Rd, Auckland.
Monday night, June 16, 7.30pm-10.30pm.
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