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A.S. Byatt (1936–2023)

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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af A.S. Byatt

Besættelse (1990) 12,913 eksemplarer
The Children's Book (2009) 3,798 eksemplarer
Engle & insekter : roman (1992) 2,150 eksemplarer
Babelstårn (1996) 1,912 eksemplarer
Jomfruen i haven (1978) 1,746 eksemplarer
Stilleben (1985) 1,427 eksemplarer
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994) 1,424 eksemplarer
Matissehistorierne (1993) 1,184 eksemplarer
Korte liv (2000) 1,177 eksemplarer
Den lille sorte bog (2003) 1,007 eksemplarer
Kvinden der fløjter (2002) 913 eksemplarer
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (2011) 903 eksemplarer
The Game (1967) 731 eksemplarer
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998) 712 eksemplarer
Sugar and Other Stories (1987) 495 eksemplarer
The Shadow of the Sun (1964) 439 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Redaktør — 192 eksemplarer
Deadly Sins (1994) — Bidragyder — 83 eksemplarer
Portraits in Fiction (2001) 83 eksemplarer
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories (2021) 80 eksemplarer
Memory (1769) 48 eksemplarer
Writers on Artists (2001) 38 eksemplarer
Vintage Byatt (2004) 22 eksemplarer
Morpho Eugenia {novella} (1992) — Forfatter — 20 eksemplarer
New Writing 4 (1995) — Redaktør — 11 eksemplarer
New Writing 6 (1997) 7 eksemplarer
BP Portrait Award 2003 (2003) 7 eksemplarer
Edmund De Waal 'from Zero' (2010) 6 eksemplarer
The Frederica Quartet (2003) 5 eksemplarer
Iris Murdoch (1976) 5 eksemplarer
A Lamia in the Cevennes {story} (1995) 3 eksemplarer
The Women Writers Handbook (2020) 2 eksemplarer
On The Conjugial Angel (2021) 2 eksemplarer
Possession | Angels & Insects — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
The July Ghost (1991) 2 eksemplarer
Dolls' Eyes [short fiction] (2013) 2 eksemplarer
Cold {story} 2 eksemplarer
Création (1996) 2 eksemplarer
2001 1 eksemplar
Envy {story} 1 eksemplar

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A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012) — Forord, nogle udgaver1,232 eksemplarer
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Song of Songs {broadside} (1935) — Forord, nogle udgaver388 eksemplarer
The Fifth Queen Trilogy (1962) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver362 eksemplarer
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (2015) — Bidragyder — 338 eksemplarer
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver298 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999) — Bidragyder — 266 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) — Bidragyder — 240 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Bidragyder — 211 eksemplarer
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Bidragyder — 188 eksemplarer
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Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings (1990) — Redaktør — 145 eksemplarer
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (2006) — Bidragyder — 138 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984) — Bidragyder — 122 eksemplarer
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
Granta 115: The F Word (2011) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1990) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
Best European Fiction 2013 (2012) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Ovid Metamorphosed (2000) — Bidragyder — 64 eksemplarer
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The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease (2008) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Bidragyder — 49 eksemplarer
A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing (1993) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Dramatic Monologues (1991) — Selection and Introduction — 47 eksemplarer
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
La Bible (1990) — Forord — 25 eksemplarer
Angels and Insects [1995 film] (2002) — Original novel — 20 eksemplarer
Best Short Stories 1991 (1991) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
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Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection (2008) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Great fairytales, part 3, Love (2009) — Efterskrift — 2 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden

Juridisk navn
Duffy, Antonia Susan
Andre navne
Byatt, Antonia Susan
Drabble, Antonia Susan (meisjesnaam)
Fødselsdato
1936-08-24
Dødsdag
2023-11-16
Køn
female
Nationalitet
Groot-Brittannië
Fødested
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Bopæl
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Uddannelse
University of Cambridge (BA|1957|Newnham College)
Bryn Mawr College
University of Oxford (Somerville College)
Erhverv
short-story writer
novelist
academic
teacher
Relationer
Duffy, Peter (husband)
Byatt, Ian Charles Rayner (first husband)
Drabble, Margaret (sister)
Langdon, Helen (sister)
Holroyd, Michael (brother-in-law)
Swift, Rebecca (1) (niece) (vis alle 7)
Swift, Joe (nephew)
Organisationer
University of London (University College)
Central School of Art and Design
Priser og hædersbevisninger
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) (vis alle 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)
Kort biografi
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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Ploughed through 90 pages. Did not like anything about it. Gave up
 
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ChristineMiller47 | 209 andre anmeldelser | Mar 16, 2024 |
I'm still waiting for my invitation to visit Venice, but in the meantime, I can luxuriate in the prose and illustrations of Ms. Byatt's fine art biography. With a mix of criticism and history, she takes the familiar, William Morris, and the less familiar, Mariano Fortuny, and highlights their lives and work with the interpolation of beautiful illustrations. This was a pleasingly informative short excursion into the world of art. The quotes from Ruskin and Proust were an added delight.
 
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jwhenderson | 6 andre anmeldelser | Mar 5, 2024 |
From the author's afterword, this seems to be part of a publisher series of retold myths. The author decided to stick to the mythical element and used a framing device of a young child discovering the myths through reading them. It's noticeable how very violent this is, and how it doesn't end well for anyone. The afterword was very interesting in itself.
 
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Helenliz | 58 andre anmeldelser | Feb 27, 2024 |
This is a real page-turner, which is almost the last thing I expected. I've no ear for poetry so I thought it might be a slog, but Byatt has crafted an intriguing mystery around research being conducted into two 19th century poets, with a layer of romance over top. Perhaps it's the echoes of my own genealogical forays that made it interesting to me, or maybe it's Byatt's incredible evocation of two entirely fictional poets (Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte), brought so vividly to life that I was at first certain they must actually have lived. I've as little ability to critique poetry as I do appreciation for it, but their fabricated work certainly sounds convincingly like what I'd expect from poets of that era.

What my compulsion could not have been due to is any kind of stakes, which I felt were practically non-existent. True, the main characters have minor personal issues to work out but it does seem as if they could carry on as-is without great harm. It also seems as though their discoveries will be preserved and shared for posterity no matter whose hands they fall into, so there's no threat there. I was forced to face the fact that I was being drawn in by the same snoopy eagerness as the modern characters have to see what they'd tripped across and what it might contain, nosing into others' private secrets. Byatt addresses this directly, challenging the reader to wonder why this is so compelling and what it says about people. From this, the stakes do emerge - and they were there all along, Byatt was only waiting for me to see it.

In retrospect, I can see that it is brilliantly constructed. It is also a romance without any of the tropes that annoy me in that genre; a romance for the non-romantically-inclined. With every page I loved it more and more, and became more and more sorry about A.S. Byatt's death last autumn. She's left us an enormous treasure.
… (mere)
 
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Cecrow | 288 andre anmeldelser | Feb 26, 2024 |

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