A.S. Byatt

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A.S. Byatt
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Antonia Susan Drabble

24 Augustus 1936
Sterf16 November 2023
NasionaliteitVlag van Verenigde Koninkryk Verenigde Koninkryk
BeroepSkrywer, digter
Bekend virThe Virgin in the Garden (1978)
Still Life (1985)
Possession (1990)
The Biographer's Tale (2000)
The Children's Book (2009)

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (gebore Drabble; 24 Augustus 1936 - 16 November 2023), en professioneel bekend as A.S. Byatt, was 'n Engelse skrywer van romans, kortverhale, poësie, essays en literêre kritiek.[1][2][3] Sy het die Booker-prys in 1990 gewen vir haar roman Possession.

Een van haar susters, Margaret Drabble, is ook 'n romanskrywer.

Werke[wysig | wysig bron]

Romans en kortverhaalbundels[wysig | wysig bron]

Essays en biografieë[wysig | wysig bron]

  • Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965)
  • Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Poetry and Life (1989)
  • Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings (1991)
  • Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers (saam met Ignes Sodre) (1995)
  • On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (2000)
  • Portraits in Fiction (2001)
  • Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny (2016)

Verwysings[wysig | wysig bron]

  1. "AS Byatt, ingenious and cerebral novelist who won the Booker Prize for Possession – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 17 November 2023. Besoek op 17 November 2023.
  2. "A. S. Byatt (24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023). A statement from Chatto & Windus, Vintage Books, UK". Penguin.
  3. Vassell, Nicole (17 November 2023). "Author of Possession and The Children's Book AS Byatt dies aged 87". The Independent. Besoek op 17 November 2023.