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A.S. Byatt


Born
in Sheffield, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
August 24, 1936

Died
November 16, 2023

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences
Iris Murdoch, Henry James, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, ...more


A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan 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 (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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Average rating: 3.87 · 317,196 ratings · 23,401 reviews · 199 distinct works • Similar authors
Possession
3.90 avg rating — 84,900 ratings — published 1990 — 183 editions
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The Children's Book
3.69 avg rating — 19,084 ratings — published 2009
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Angels and Insects
3.63 avg rating — 6,156 ratings — published 1992 — 72 editions
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Ragnarok
3.48 avg rating — 6,312 ratings — published 2011 — 60 editions
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The Djinn in the Nightingal...
3.85 avg rating — 4,532 ratings — published 1994 — 34 editions
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The Virgin in the Garden (T...
3.72 avg rating — 3,671 ratings — published 1978 — 53 editions
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The Matisse Stories
3.75 avg rating — 3,277 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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Babel Tower
3.84 avg rating — 2,868 ratings — published 1996 — 57 editions
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Little Black Book of Stories
3.79 avg rating — 2,832 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions
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Still Life
3.90 avg rating — 2,605 ratings — published 1985 — 46 editions
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Series by A.S. Byatt

The Virgin in the Garden Still Life A Whistling Woman
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“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
tags: passionate-love
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“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
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“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
tags: introversion, peace, solitude
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Faithful Faithful by Alice Hoffman Alice Hoffman
 
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The Sheltering Sky The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Paul Bowles
 
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The Virgin in the Garden The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt A.S. Byatt
 
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The Line That Held Us The Line That Held Us by David Joy David Joy
 
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