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A. S. Byatt
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, Antonia Susan Duffy, Dame Antonia Duffy, Dame Antonia Byatt
British writer (1936–2023)
OverviewAI-generated
A. S. Byatt was a writer whose professional career spanned from 1964 to 2016. Born on 24 August 1936, she passed away in 2023. She had four children. Her bibliography includes 122 works, with notable titles such as *Deadly Sins*, *Otto peccati capitali*, *Middlemarch; Possession*, *Selected Essays*, *Poems and Other Writings*, and *El libro de los niños*.
Byatt was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Her writings include passages such as "Despite the snow, despite the falling snow" and "I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 24 Aug 1936
- Died
- 2023
- Works
- 122
Top works
- Deadly Sins
- Otto peccati capitali
- Middlemarch; Possession
- Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
- El libro de los niños
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1685-03-21
- Active to
- 1750-07-28
Discography
- Digital 3" Classics
- Oratorio de Noël1954
- St. Matthew Passion1954
- Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin1955
- Toccata en fa majeur / Concerto pour 2 trompettes en ut / Sonate en fa dièse, op. 78, « À Thérèse » / Symphonie n° 26 en mi bémol (K. 184) / Fantaisie‐impromptu, op. 66 / Carnaval romain, Ouverture1955
- The Goldberg Variations1956
- Concerti1957
- Suites pour violoncelle seul N°3 en do majeur / N°4 en mi bémol majeur1957
- Suites pour violoncelle seul N° 1 en sol majeur / N° 2 en ré mineur1957
- Suites pour violoncelle seul N° 5 en do mineur / N° 6 en ré majeur1957
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 27
- Total plays
- 158
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
· 2008 · cited 1,611x
- The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
· 2010 · cited 1,042x
- Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:msub><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mi>NN</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2.76</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:math>with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
· 2010 · cited 544x
- Closing the Rural Cancer Care Gap: Three Institutional Approaches
· 2020 · cited 300x
- Charged-particle multiplicities in<i>pp</i>interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2011 · cited 294x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.”
- “I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.”
- “And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.”
- “There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
~20 min read
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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