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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]
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, 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.
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown.
Nov 17, 2023 · Author A.S. Byatt, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87. Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, says that the author died “peacefully at home surrounded by close family.” Byatt wrote two dozen novels, starting with “The Shadow of the Sun” in 1964.
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.
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...
A.S. Byatt’s 1990 Booker Prize-winner is a gloriously exhilarating novel of both wit and romance. Read an extract from January’s Monthly Spotlight here. Winning the Booker Prize in 1990, Possession follows two modern-day scholars as they uncover a secret affair between famous fictional poets, all the while falling in love themselves.
Nov 25, 2023 · Born: August 24th, 1936. Died: November 16th, 2023. AS Byatt, one of the most ambitious writers of her generation, whose dazzling 1990 novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and brought her...
Nov 17, 2023 · Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was once described as the most consciously intellectual woman writer since George Eliot; her dense, cerebral fiction looked set ...
