A.S. Byatt
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.
A.S. Byatt | |
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| Gebore | Antonia Susan Drabble 24 Augustus 1936 |
| Sterf | 16 November 2023 |
| Nasionaliteit | .svg){kind=small} Verenigde Koninkryk |
| Beroep | Skrywer, digter |
| Bekend vir | The Virgin in the Garden (1978) Still Life (1985) Possession (1990) The Biographer's Tale (2000) The Children's Book (2009) |
Een van haar susters, Margaret Drabble, is ook 'n romanskrywer.
Werke
wysigRomans en kortverhaalbundels
wysig- The Shadow of the Sun (1964)
- The Game (1967)
- The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
- Still Life (1985)
- Sugar and Other Stories (1987)
- Possession: A Romance (1990)
- Angels and Insects (1992)
- The Matisse Stories (1993)
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994)
- Babel Tower (1997)
- Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998)
- The Biographer's Tale (2000)
- A Whistling Woman (2002)
- Little Black Book of Stories (2003)
- The Children's Book (2009)
- Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (2011)
Essays en biografieë
wysig- 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- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "A. S. Byatt (24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023). A statement from Chatto & Windus, Vintage Books, UK". Penguin.
- ↑ 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.
