A.S. Byatt (1936–2023)
Autor/a de Possession
Sobre l'autor
A.S. Byatt was born on August 24, 1936 in Sheffield, England. She received a B.A. from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1957, did graduate study at Bryn Mawr College from 1957-58, and attended Somerville College, Oxford from 1958-59. She was a staff member in the extra-mural department at the mostra'n més University of London from 1962-71. From 1968-69, she was also a part-time lecturer in the liberal studies department of the Central School of Art and Design, London. She was a lecturer at University College from 1972-80 and then senior lecturer from 1981-83. She became a full-time writer in 1983. Her works include The Biographer's Tale, The Virgin in the Garden, Babel Tower, A Whistling Woman, and The Children's Book. She also wrote numerous collections of short stories including Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Elementals, and Little Black Book of Stories. Byatt received the English Speaking Union fellowship in 1957-58, the Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983, the Silver Pen Award for Still Life, and the Booker Prize for Possession: A Romance in 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Seamus Kearney
Sèrie
Obres de A.S. Byatt
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) (2000) 181 exemplars
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye / The Story of the Eldest Princess / Dragons' Breath (1995) — Autor — 12 exemplars
The Story of the Eldest Princess [short fiction] 3 exemplars
Possession | Angels & Insects — Autor — 2 exemplars
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye [novella] 2 exemplars
Cold {story} 2 exemplars
2001 1 exemplars
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye 1 exemplars
A Stone Woman (Storycuts) 1 exemplars
Dragons' Breath {short story} 1 exemplars
Gode's Story {short story} 1 exemplars
A Glass Coffin {short story} 1 exemplars
Racine and the Tablecloth [short story] 1 exemplars
Envy {story} 1 exemplars
The reader as writer, the writer as reader 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (2001) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,780 exemplars
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 1,231 exemplars
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography (1934) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 591 exemplars
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Col·laborador — 364 exemplars
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 298 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999) — Col·laborador — 266 exemplars
The Outspoken Princess and The Gentle Knight: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales (1994) — Col·laborador — 199 exemplars
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Col·laborador — 62 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Duffy, Antonia Susan
- Altres noms
- Byatt, Antonia Susan
Drabble, Antonia Susan (meisjesnaam) - Data de naixement
- 1936-08-24
- Data de defunció
- 2023-11-16
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Groot-Brittannië
- Lloc de naixement
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Educació
- University of Cambridge (BA|1957|Newnham College)
Bryn Mawr College
University of Oxford (Somerville College) - Professions
- short-story writer
novelist
academic
teacher - Relacions
- Duffy, Peter (husband)
Byatt, Ian Charles Rayner (first husband)
Drabble, Margaret (sister)
Langdon, Helen (sister)
Holroyd, Michael (brother-in-law)
Swift, Rebecca (1) (niece) (mostra-les totes 7)
Swift, Joe (nephew) - Organitzacions
- University of London (University College)
Central School of Art and Design - Premis i honors
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1990)
Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander, 1999)
Premio Malaparte (1995)
Shakespeare Prize (2002)
Booker Prize (1990)
Park Kyong-ni Prize (2017) (mostra-les totes 17)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction (1995)
PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1986)
Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1990)
Commonwealth Writers Prize (1991)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (1998)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2010)
Erasmus Prize (2016)
Fellow, British Academy (2017)
Golden Plate Award from American Academy of Achievement (2017)
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (2018) - Biografia breu
- Antonia Susan Drabble was born in Yorkshire and educated at a Quaker school in York. After studying at Cambridge University and Bryn Mawr College, she did postgraduate work at Oxford University. In 1959, she married Ian Charles Rayner Byatt and had two children; she later married Peter John Duffy and had two more children. She goes by the pen name A.S. Byatt. She taught in the Extra-Mural Department of London University and the Central School of Art and Design, and in 1972 became full-time Lecturer in English and American Literature at University College, London. She left in 1983 to concentrate on her writing full-time. She has travelled widely to lecture and talk about her work, often with the British Council, and was Chairman of the Society of Authors between 1986 and 1988. She has served on the judging panels for a number of literary prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction, and is recognised as a distinguished critic, contributing regularly to journals and newspapers including the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent and the Sunday Times, as well as to BBC radio and television programs. Her first novel, Shadow of a Sun, was published in 1964. A.S. Byatt was awarded a CBE in 1990 and a DBE in 1999.
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Converses
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - SHEFFIELD a 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (juny 2017)
***Group Read of The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt a 2015 Category Challenge (abril 2015)
JULY: Reading A. S. Byatt a Monthly Author Reads (setembre 2011)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 66
- També de
- 70
- Membres
- 34,665
- Popularitat
- #544
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 803
- ISBN
- 525
- Llengües
- 20
- Preferit
- 228