Dame Hilary Mantel: Rowling, Mosse and Evaristo pay tribute to late author

Authors JK Rowling, Kate Mosse and Bernardine Evaristo led the tributes to Dame Hilary Mantel, saying s he changed the face of literature.

Dame Hilary, author of the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy, died on Thursday aged 70 , confirmed her publisher.

She won the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall in 2009, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its sequel in 2012's Bring Up the Bodies.

"We've lost a genius," Harry Potter writer Rowling tweeted.

The President of the Royal Society of Literature, Evaristo said she was "so sorry" to hear the news and felt "so lucky to have such talent among we".

"I've met her many times and she was always so warm, down to earth and welcoming. RIP," said the award-winning author. Booker Prize.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth and founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction, said that Dame Hilary "changed the face of how modern readers viewed historical fiction". sort of this exquisite way of capturing a place in a time in three sentences," Mosse said.

'A writer of writers'