Hilary Mantel: Why Novelists Are Deliberately Misunderstood

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Hilary Mantel: Why Novelists Are Deliberately Misunderstood

Posted at 6:48PM Tuesday 19 Feb 2013

The Booker-prize winner's speech about royal wives and the Duchess of Cambridge has been spun by the press and politicians. It's the latest in a long line of literary misinterpretations, from Martin Amis to Anne Enright

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LRB: Hilary Mantel spoke about royal bodies in the first of this year's LRB Winter Lectures at the British Museum

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