A.S. Byatt
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born
August 24, 1936
gender
female
place of birth
Sheffield, The United Kingdom
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
influences
Henry James, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Browning
about this author
A S Byatt is internationally known for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning 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 (Susan), (Dame Antonia Duffy), DBE 1999 (CBE 1990); FRSL 1983; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 2003 , writer; born 24 Aug. 1936;
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Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.88 — 6,492 ratings — published 1990 41 editions |
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Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.60 — 916 ratings — published 1992 16 editions |
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The Virgin in the Garden: A Novel (The Frederica Quartet, #1) by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.76 — 554 ratings — published 1978 11 editions |
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.92 — 488 ratings — published 1994 13 editions |
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Still Life (The Frederica Quartet, #2) by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.85 — 468 ratings — published 1985 11 editions |
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Babel Tower (The Frederica Quartet, #3) by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.79 — 460 ratings — published 1996 13 editions |
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Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.81 — 420 ratings — published 2003 7 editions |
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The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.75 — 412 ratings — published 1993 13 editions |
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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.89 — 243 ratings — published 1998 13 editions |
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A Whistling Woman (The Frederica Quartet, #4) by A.S. Byatt avg rating 3.84 — 245 ratings — published 2002 10 editions |
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" There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been."
— A.S. Byatt
— A.S. Byatt
"What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books."
— A.S. Byatt
— A.S. Byatt
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