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A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) is internationally known for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize winner Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, and her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, Elementals and her most recent book Little Black Book of Stories.
Nov 16, 2023 · A.S. Byatt. A.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize in 1990 with Possession and was shortlisted in 2009 with The Children’s Book. Writing, she said, ‘is simply the most important thing in my life’. Antonia Byatt published her first novel in 1964 and, apart from an interlude as an academic, wrote them – and short stories, essays and critical ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Possession. A.S. Byatt. 3.89. 80,763 ratings5,421 reviews. Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets.
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Nov 15, 2021 · Byatt is a perceptive writer about aging, about what it’s like to feel like you’re disappearing, like Homer Simpson into that hedge, from the brighter world. Men as well as women have this pang.
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Feb 9, 2017 · He orders whiskey, she a glass of champagne. Then these two white-haired, keen-eyed literary eminences retire to a side room to talk while I chat in the bar with Peter Duffy, Byatt’s genial, bearded husband. It’s a quiet moment, but in the light of current affairs it feels poignant, a scene from a fading dream of cultural exchange.
