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A.S. Byatt


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

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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 · 289,843 ratings · 19,255 reviews · 163 distinct works • Similar authors
Possession. A romance
3.89 avg rating — 78,870 ratings — published 1990 — 56 editions
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The Children's Book
3.66 avg rating — 17,949 ratings — published 2009 — 72 editions
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Angels and Insects
3.64 avg rating — 5,761 ratings — published 1992 — 75 editions
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Ragnarok
3.48 avg rating — 5,578 ratings — published 2011 — 66 editions
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The Djinn in the Nightingal...
3.85 avg rating — 3,978 ratings — published 1994 — 42 editions
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The Virgin in the Garden (T...
3.72 avg rating — 3,347 ratings — published 1978 — 50 editions
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The Matisse Stories
3.75 avg rating — 2,932 ratings — published 1991 — 39 editions
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Babel Tower
3.83 avg rating — 2,718 ratings — published 1996 — 55 editions
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Little Black Book of Stories
3.80 avg rating — 2,680 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Still Life
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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. A romance
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. A romance
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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. A romance
tags: introversion, peace, solitude
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