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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy DBE HonFBA ( née Drabble; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt ( / ˈbaɪ.ət / BY-ət ), [1] was an English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. [2] [3]
A.S. Byatt, English scholar, literary critic, and novelist known for her erudite works whose characters are often academics or artists commenting on the intellectual process. Her notable novels included The Virgin in the Garden, Possession, and The Children’s Book.
Nov 17, 2023 · A.S. Byatt, one of the most ambitious writers of her generation, whose dazzling 1990 novel, “Possession,” won the Booker Prize and brought her international fame as a novelist and unapologetic ...
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown.
Biography. Dame A (ntonia) S (usan) Byatt was born on 24 August 1936 in Yorkshire. She was educated at a Quaker school in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied as a postgraduate.
Nov 16, 2023 · 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 ...
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was a Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London (1972-1984), before returning to full time writing.
Nov 17, 2023 · A.S. Byatt, the Booker Prize-winning author of “Possession,” who grappled with history, tradition, science and myth in a six-decade career that established her as one of Britain’s most renowned...
Nov 17, 2023 · Novelist, critic and poet Dame AS Byatt has died at the age of 87, her publisher has announced. The renowned writer, whose full name was Antonia Susan Byatt, won the Booker Prize for her 1990...
Nov 18, 2023 · LONDON — British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession," has died at the age of 87.
