A. S. Byatt

Byatt in 2007 Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A.S. Byatt ( ), was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.

After attending the University of Cambridge, she married in 1959 and moved to Durham. It was during Byatt's time at university that she began working on her first two novels, subsequently published by Chatto & Windus as ''Shadow of a Sun'' (1964; reprinted in 1991 with its originally intended title, ''The Shadow of the Sun'') and ''The Game'' (1967). Byatt took a teaching job in 1972 to help pay for the education of her son. In the same week she accepted, a drunk driver killed her son as he walked home from school. He was 11 years of age. Byatt spent a symbolic 11 years teaching, then began full-time writing in 1983. ''The Virgin in the Garden'' (1978) was the first of ''The Quartet'', a tetralogy of novels that continued with ''Still Life'' (1985), ''Babel Tower'' (1996) and ''A Whistling Woman'' (2002).

Byatt's novel ''Possession: A Romance'' received the 1990 Booker Prize, while her short story collection ''The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'' (1994) received the 1995 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Her novel ''The Children's Book'' was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize and won the 2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her critical work includes two studies of Dame Iris Murdoch (who was a friend and mentor), ''Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch'' (1965) and ''Iris Murdoch: A Critical Study'' (1976). Her other critical studies include ''Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time'' (1970) and ''Portraits in Fiction'' (2001).

Byatt was awarded the Shakespeare Prize in 2002, the Erasmus Prize in 2016, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2017 and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2018. She was mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Passions of the mind : selected writings / by Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

    Published 1993
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    Babel tower / by Byatt, A. S., (Antonia Susan) 1936-

    Published 1997
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    On histories and stories : selected essays / by Byatt, A. S., (Antonia Susan) 1936-

    Published 2001
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    Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince / by Byatt, A. S., (Antonia Susan) 1936-

    Published 1977
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    Possession : a romance / by Byatt, A. S., (Antonia Susan) 1936-

    Published 1991
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