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Antonia S Byatt

(Antonia Susan Byatt Duffy)
UK  (1936 - )
(Sister of Margaret Drabble)
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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 contributed to
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
 
Anthologies edited
New WritingThe Oxford Book of English Short Stories
 
Non fiction
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their TimeDegrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris MurdochOn Histories and Stories: Selected EssaysPortraits in Fiction
Memory
 
Anthologies containing stories by Antonia S Byatt
The Penguin Book of Ghost StoriesThe Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost StoriesThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost StoriesThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection
 
Short stories
The Story of the Eldest Princess
The July Ghost (1982)
The Next Room (1987)
A Lamia in the Cevennes (1995)
Cold (1998)World Fantasy (nominee)


Awards
The Man 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 Man 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 RealA. S. Byatt: Twayne's English Authors Series, No 529A. S. Byatt: Art, Authorship, CreativityA. S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide
 
Links to other websites
asbyatt.com


Antonia S Byatt recommends
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"The dialogue is subtle and the atmosphere of the French visits economically and brilliantly conveyed."
Holiday
Holiday (1974)
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"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
Obabakoak (1992)
Bernardo Atxaga
"At once terribly moving and wildly funny."
In the Place of Fallen Leaves
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
Hallucinating Foucault (1996)
Patricia Duncker
"One of the best novels of the year."
Impossible Saints
Impossible Saints (1997)
Michèle Roberts
"Wicked and delicious."
The Last Samurai
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
Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000)
Helen Simpson
"It is the book's truthfulness that makes it both intensely tragic and intensely comic."
All Souls' Day
All Souls' Day (2001)
Cees Nooteboom
"Nooteboom is one of the great modern novelists."
Runaway
Runaway (2004)
Alice Munro
"The greatest living short story writer."
Orphans of Eldorado
Orphans of Eldorado (2010)
Milton Hatoum
"A tough and gifted novelist."
Jamrach's Menagerie
Jamrach's Menagerie (2011)
Carol Birch
"Completely original."
Seven Houses in France
Seven Houses in France (2011)
Bernardo Atxaga
"A brilliantly inventive writer... at once terribly moving and wildly funny."



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