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A.S. Byatt

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Born: August 23 1936

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A.S. 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. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

BYATT, Dame Antonia , , DBE 1999 ; FRSL 1983; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , 2003 , writer; born 24 Aug. 1936;

Daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor

Byatt has famously been engaged in a long-running feud with her novelist sister, Margaret Drabble, over the alleged appropriation of a family tea-set in one of her novels. The pair seldom see each other and each does not read the books of the other.

Married
1st, 1959, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt marriage dissolved. 1969; one daughter
2nd, 1969, Peter John Duffy; two daughters.

Education
Sheffield High School; The Mount School, York; Newnham College, Cambridge ; Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA; Somerville College, Oxford.

Academic Honours:
Hon. Fellow, London Inst., 2000; Fellow UCL, 2004
Hon. DLitt: Bradford, 1987; DUniv York, 1991; Durham, 1991; Nottingham, 1992; Liverpool, 1993; Portsmouth, 1994; London, 1995; Sheffield, 2000; Kent 2004; Hon. LittD Cambridge, 1999

Prizes
The PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Of Fiction prize, 1986 for STILL LIFE
The Booker Prize, 1990, for POSSESSION
Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, 1990 for POSSESSION
The Eurasian section of Best Book in Commonwealth Prize, 1991 for POSSESSION
Premio Malaparte, Capri, 1995;
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, California, 1998 for THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE''S EYE
Shakespeare Prize, Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, 2002;

Publications:
The Shadow of the Sun, 1964;
Degrees of Freedom, 1965 ;
The Game, 1967;
Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time, 1970 ;
Iris Murdoch 1976
The Virgin in the Garden, 1978;
GEORGE ELIOT Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings , 1979 ;
Still Life, 1985
Sugar and Other Stories, 1987;
George Eliot: selected essays, 1989
Possession: a romance, 1990
Robert Browning''s Dramatic Monologues, 1990 ;
Passions of the Mind, , 1991;
Angels and Insects ,1992
The Matisse Stories ,1993;
The Djinn in the Nightingale''s Eye: five fairy stories, 1994
Imagining Characters, 1995 ;
New Writing 4, 1995 ;
Babel Tower, 1996;
New Writing 6, 1997 ;
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, 1998 ;
Elementals: Stories of fire and ice , 1998;
The Biographer''s Tale, 2000;
On Histories and Stories , 2000;
Portraits in Fiction, 2001;
The Bird Hand Book, 2001 ;
A Whistling Woman, 2002
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Books from A.S. Byatt

Possession

The Arabian Nights

Villette

The Children's Book

The Professor's House

The Bell

Angels and Insects

A Lost Lady

Ragnarok

The Annotated Brothers Grimm

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

The Virgin in the Garden

The Matisse Stories

Little Black Book of Stories

A Whistling Woman

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

The Fifth Queen

The Winds of Heaven

A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction

The Means of Escape