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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, 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.
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culture · British writer (1936–2023) · writer · novelist · poet · literary critic · university teacher · prose writer · also A. S. Byatt, Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, Antonia Susan Duffy, Dame Antonia Duffy, Dame Antonia Byatt, Byatt
Born 24 August 1936 · Died 16 November 2023 · Q232417
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2026· 3 entries
“greatest terror which is simple domesticity.”
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“terribly overstated by gossip columnists.”
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2023· 9 entries
The Guardian: AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87
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The Washington Post: A.S. Byatt, Booker Prize-winning novelist of ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
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Yahoo: A.S. Byatt, British writer and author of Booker Prize-winning 'Possession,' dies at 87
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USA Today: British author A.S. Byatt, best known for award-winning 'Possession,' dies at 87
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Nasdaq: British author A.S. Byatt, who won Booker prize for 'Possession' dies aged 87
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Died 2023-11-16.
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“Es la historia de una mujer desde la época en que las mujeres no podíamos muchas cosas. Federica se ha casado, ha tenido un hijo, se ha divorciado y finalmente busca un trabajo en la televisión donde se convierte en un personaje en la época en la que todavía pensábamos que en ese invento podríamos hacer cosas inteligentes.”
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“Me identifico a medias con esto. En las formas y estructuras de mis novelas puede. Disfruto más con Balzac que con los escritores contemporáneos, aunque en cuanto a los temas recurro a asuntos de mi época, y vivimos en un mundo muy diferente al de los victorianos.”
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“Creo que es un peligro que un hombre que sólo ha viajado a México antes de ser presidente domine el mundo. Es un fanático y, como tal, considera que el resto del mundo también lo es.”
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Erasmus Prize (2016).
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of Leiden University (2010).
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Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
Is a novel spanning from 1895 until the end of the First World War, centring on the fictional writer Olive Wellwood
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That she was "not entirely disinterested, because I wish there to be a literary world in which people are not writing books only about people's feelings
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded O. Henry Award (2003).
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As "the best of the young novelists now writing"
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2002· 1 entry
The Erasmus Prize in 2016, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2017 and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2018
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2000· 1 entry
Originally intended as a short story titled "The Biography of a Biographer", based on her notion of a biographer's life in a library investigating another person's life
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1999).
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories (1998).
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And Little Black Book of Stories, published in 2003
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1991· 3 entries
With its originally intended title, The Shadow of the Sun, intact
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With originally intended title The Shadow of the Sun
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With its originally intended title, The Shadow of the Sun) and The Game (1967)
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for Possession (1990).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1990).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1983).
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1972· 1 entry
To help pay for the education of her son
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1967· 1 entry
Concerned the dynamics between two sisters
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1961· 1 entry
(inspired by Byatt's reading of Angus Wilson's book The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and the accident in its opening), a death scene that has drawn complaints from numerous readers for its vividness
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1959· 1 entry
And moving to Durham, she left The Game aside and resumed work on her earlier novel
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1945· 1 entry
Won: 2008 (1945).
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-08-24.
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