I wasn’t in it to find things I had never found before, to revisit a personal classic to explore ideas that I had left behind for the time when I was ready to connect with them in the way that they deserved. I have to admit, I did not approach this book this time around with what I would consider pure motives. The Bird Hand Book, 2001 (Photographs by Victor Schrager Text By AS Byatt) The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, 1998 (editor) Įlementals: Stories of fire and ice (short stories), 1998 Imagining Characters, 1995 (joint editor) The Djinn in the Nightingale''s Eye: five fairy stories, 1994 The Matisse Stories (short stories),1993

Robert Browning''s Dramatic Monologues, 1990 (editor) George Eliot: selected essays, 1989 (editor) GEORGE ELIOT Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings, 1979 (editor) Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time, 1970 (reprinted as Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time, 1989) Shakespeare Prize, Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, 2002 ĭegrees of Freedom, 1965 (reprinted as Degrees of Freedom: the early novels of Iris Murdoch, 1994) Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, California, 1998 for THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE''S EYE The Eurasian section of Best Book in Commonwealth Prize, 1991 for POSSESSION Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, 1990 for POSSESSION

The PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Of Fiction prize, 1986 for STILL LIFE Fellow, London Inst., 2000 Fellow UCL, 2004 Fellow 1999) Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA Somerville College, Oxford. Sheffield High School The Mount School, York Newnham College, Cambridge (BA Hons Hon. 1969 one daughter (one son deceased)Ģnd, 1969, Peter John Duffy two daughters. The pair seldom see each other and each does not read the books of the other.ġst, 1959, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt (Sir I.

1936 ĭaughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloorīyatt has famously been engaged in a long-running feud with her novelist sister, Margaret Drabble, over the alleged appropriation of a family tea-set in one of her novels. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.īYATT, 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. 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. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) is internationally known for her novels and short stories.

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