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A. S. Byatt
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British writer (1936–2023)
A. S. Byatt was a highly acclaimed British novelist and short story writer who lived from 1936 to 2023, best known for her intellectually ambitious fiction that often weaves together literature, art, and mythology. Her work earned major literary recognition, including the Booker Prize, and she is considered an important figure in contemporary English literature for her distinctive blend of storytelling and scholarly depth.
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Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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. Her novels include Possession (winner of the 1990 Booker Prize), The Children’s Book, (shortlisted…
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- human
- Given name
- Susan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Sheffield
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Educated at
- Newnham College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Official website
- asbyatt.com
- Image
- AS Byatt Portrait.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
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- A. S. Byatt
- date of birth
- 1936-08-24
- birth name
- Antonia Susan Drabble
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2023-11-16
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt (/ˈbaɪ.ət/ BY-ət), 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).
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