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Antonia S Byatt

(Antonia Susan Byatt Duffy)

(1936 - )
(Sister of Margaret Drabble)

About Antonia S Byatt

A.S. Byatt was educated in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, and taught at the Central School of Art before becoming a full-time writer. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

Series

Frederica
1. The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
2. Still Life (1985)
3. Babel Tower (1996)
4. A Whistling Woman (2001)
The Frederica Quartet (omnibus) (2003)

Anthologies edited

New Writing (1995) (with Alan Hollinghurst)
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998)

Non fiction

Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time (1970)
Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1994) (see Iris Murdoch)
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (2000)
Portraits in Fiction (2001)
Memory (2007) (with Harriet Harvey Wood)

Anthologies containing stories by Antonia S Byatt

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)

Short stories

	The July Ghost (1982)
	The Next Room (1987)
	A Lamia in the Cevennes (1995)
	Cold (1998)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Story of the Eldest Princess

Awards

	The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1990) : Possession: A Romance
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Collection winner (1998) : The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1999) : Cold
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Collection nominee (2000) : Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
	The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2009) : The Children's Book

Books about Antonia S Byatt

Essays on the Fiction of A.S. Byatt: Imagining the Real (1989) by Alexa Alfer
A. S. Byatt: Twayne's English Authors Series, No 529 (1996) by Kathleen Coyne Kelly
A. S. Byatt: Art, Authorship, Creativity (2001) by Christien Franken
A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide (2002) by Catherine Burgass

Links to other websites

asbyatt.com

Antonia S Byatt recommends

Holiday (1974) Stanley Middleton "At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily recognizable. The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour."	Obabakoak (1992) Bernardo Atxaga "At once terribly moving and wildly funny."	In the Place of Fallen Leaves (1993) Tim Pears "Constantly delightful and constantly surprising... This novel is something completely new and exciting... Comic and wry and elegiac and shrewd and thoughtful all at once. Please read it."
Hallucinating Foucault (1996) Patricia Duncker "One of the best novels of the year."	Impossible Saints (1997) Michèle Roberts "Wicked and delicious."	All Souls' Day (1999) Cees Nooteboom "Nooteboom is one of the great modern novelists."
The Last Samurai (2000) Helen De Witt "A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form, funny and tragic and intriguing and over the top and perfectly controlled."	Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2001) Helen Simpson "It is the book's truthfulness that makes it both intensely tragic and intensely comic."	Runaway (2004) Alice Munro "The greatest living short story writer."

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