AS Byatt

AS Byatt in June 2007

Dame Antonia Susan Byatt DBE (born August 24, 1936 in Sheffield ) is a British writer .

Life

AS Byatt was born in Sheffield, the daughter of British Crown Attorney John Drabble and Kathleen Bloor. She is the sister of Margaret Drabble , Richard Drabble and Helen Langdon. The family moved to York as a result of the bombing of the city by the German Air Force in 1940 ( Sheffield Blitz ). Byatt was educated in a Quaker school in York . She later studied at Newnham College , Cambridge , Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia and Oxford. She taught at London University , the Central School of Art and Design and University College in London for several years before devoting herself entirely to writing.

In 1959 she married Ian Charles Rayner Byatt, with whom she had a daughter and a son. She has two other daughters with her second husband, Peter Duffy, whom she married in 1969.

Awards

In 1990 her novel Possession won the Booker Prize and Queen Elizabeth II made her Commander of the Order of the British Empire .
In 1999 she was appointed Dame Commander .
In 2002 she received the Shakespeare Prize from the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation .
In 2014 she was elected as a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
In 2016 she was awarded the Erasmus Prize.
In 2017 she was accepted as an honorary member of the British Academy .
In 2017 she received the Park Kyung ni Literature Prize .
In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize .

Works

AS Byatt (2011)

1964 The Shadow of the Sun
1968 The Game
1970 Degrees of Freedom - The Novels of Iris Murdoch
1970 Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time
1976 Iris Murdoch
1978 The Virgin in the Garden (D: 1998 The Virgin in the Garden , Translator: Christa E. Seibicke)
1979 The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
1982 The Song of the Lark
1983 The Game
1985 Still Life
1986 The House in Paris
1987 Sugar and other stories
1990 Possession. A romance . (D: 1993 Obsessed , Translator: Melanie Walz)
1991 Passions of the Mind
1992 Angels and Insects. Two novellas.
1993 The Matisse Stories (D: 1996 Stories about Matisse , transl .: Melanie Walz)
1994 The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (D: 1995 Der verliebte Dschinn , Translator: Melanie Walz)
1994 Morpho Eugenia (D: The Metamorphosis of the Butterfly , Translator: Melanie Walz)
1995 D: The story of the oldest princess and other fairy tales , Translator: Melanie Walz
1995 D: Sugar. Narration , translator: Melanie Walz
1995 D: Evocation of Spirits , Translator: Melanie Walz
1996 Babel Tower (D 2004: The Tower of Babel , Translator: Brigitte Heinrich and Melanie Walz)
1998 Elementals. Stories of Fire and Ice (D: 2002 Stories of Fire and Ice , Translator: Melanie Walz)
1998 The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Editor)
1998 The Pocket Canons Bible. The Song of Solomon (D: 2000 The Bible Project. The Song of Solomon , Translator:?)

2000 On Histories and Stories. Selected essays

2000 The Biographer's Tale (D: 2001 The secret of the biographer , transl .: Melanie Walz)

2002 A Whistling Woman (D: 2006 Women who whistle . Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig, Insel Verlag, ISBN 3-458-17309-9 )

2003 The Little Black Book of Stories

2003 D: Stories of Earth and Air , Translator: Melanie Walz

2005 D: Stern- & Geisterstunden: Erzählungen , Übers: Melanie Walz, Eichborn 2005, Series Die Other Bibliothek , ISBN 978-3-8218-4552-4 .

2009 The Children's Book (D: 2011 The children's book from English by. Melanie Walz S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2011. ISBN 978-3-10-004417-4 )

2011 Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (D: 2012 Ragnarok: the fate of the gods. Translated from the English by Susanne Röckel, Berlin-Verlag, 2012)

2016 Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny , Knopf Doubleday, New York ISBN 978-1101947470

Film adaptations

1995: Angels and Insects (Angels and Insects) - based on the novel "Morpho Eugenia"
2002: Owned (Possession)

literature

Andreas Dorschel , 'Oh, you weren't in Oxford? Antonia S. Byatt's novel Der Turm zu Babel , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 274 (November 25, 2004), p. 16
Louisa Hadley / Nicolas Tredell, The Fiction of AS Byatt , Basingstoke [England] - New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008

Web links

Commons : AS Byatt - collection of images, videos and audio files

AS Byatt official homepage
Literature by and about Antonia S. Byatt in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and reviews of works by AS Byatt at perlentaucher.de
Short biography and list of works on the website of the British Council (English)
AS Byatt in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
AS Byatt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
AS Byatt in nndb (English)
AS Byatt. on: munzinger.de
AS Byatt in an interview with Thomas David : «I abhor the religion of the self» | NZZ. 19th August 2016.

supporting documents

↑ Sam Leith: Interview: AS Byatt . In: The Guardian . April 24, 2009, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 16, 2018]).
^ AS Byatt | British scholar, literary critic, and novelist. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
^ Mira Stout: What Possessed AS Byatt? Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
↑ How the fairer, better world passed. In: FAZ . October 1, 2001, p. 35.
^ Fiona MacCarthy: Peacock and Vine by AS Byatt review - Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, masters of design . In: The Guardian . July 1, 2016, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 16, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Byatt, AS
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Byatt, Antonia Susan; Byatt, Antonia S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British writer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sheffield

[1] Sam Leith: Interview: AS Byatt . In: The Guardian . April 24, 2009, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 16, 2018]).

[2] AS Byatt | British scholar, literary critic, and novelist. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .

[3] Mira Stout: What Possessed AS Byatt? Retrieved December 16, 2018 .

[4] Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .

[5] How the fairer, better world passed. In: FAZ . October 1, 2001, p. 35.

[6] Fiona MacCarthy: Peacock and Vine by AS Byatt review - Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, masters of design . In: The Guardian . July 1, 2016, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 16, 2018]).