The historical novelist is to receive the Award Of Bodley Medal for outstanding achievement in literature.

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The Wolf Hall author will be presented with the Bodley Medal for outstanding achievement in literature on 24 March.

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Margaret Hodge, minister for culture, media and sport is due to attend an event on Saturday in honour of the library's founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, when the donation will be formally announced.

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The Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust is primarily based in the Leeds area, although not all of its trustees - listed as Luke Lucas, Dr Roger Bodley and Lady Gabrielle Greenbury on the Charity Commission's website - still live there.

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