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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 ...
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.
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown.
Nov 16, 2023 · 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
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.
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 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.
