A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1936-08-24
Deathday: 2023-11-16 (87 years old)

Biography

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was a Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London (1972-1984), before returning to full time writing. Her novels include Possession (winner of the 1990 Booker Prize), The Children’s Book, (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction), and the the Frederica Quartet, comprising The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her books have been translated into thirty-two different languages. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016, for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’, and the Pak Kyongni Prize in 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. A.S. Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1936-08-24

Deathday
2023-11-16 (87 years old)

Birth Name
Antonia Susan Drabble

Birth Place
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Father
John Drabble

Siblings
Margaret Drabble, Helen Langdon, Richard Drabble

Citizenships
United Kingdom

Awards
Honorary doctor of Leiden University, Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Erasmus Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Man Booker Prize, Booker Prize, O. Henry Award

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