Encaenia is the ceremony at which the University of Oxford awards honorary degrees to distinguished men and women and commemorates its benefactors.

Dame Hilary Mantel is a novelist, the author of fourteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety and Beyond Black. In an unprecedented achievement, her two most recent novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, which deal with the career of the 16th century courtier Thomas Cromwell, have both been awarded the Man Booker Prize. The Thomas Cromwell novels have been adapted for the theatre by the RSC and for television by the BBC. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of the Bodley Medal.

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