A.S. Byatt (1936–2023)
Autor de Posesión
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de A.S. Byatt
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye / The Story of the Eldest Princess / Dragons' Breath (1995) — Autor — 12 copias
Cold {story} 2 copias
Possession | Angels & Insects — Autor — 2 copias
2001 1 copia
Der verliebte Dschinn 1 copia
Envy {story} 1 copia
A Stone Woman (Storycuts) 1 copia
Dragons' Breath {short story} 1 copia
Gode's Story {short story} 1 copia
A Glass Coffin {short story} 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Duffy, Antonia Susan
- Otros nombres
- Byatt, Antonia Susan
Drabble, Antonia Susan (meisjesnaam) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1936-08-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2023-11-16
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Groot-Brittannië
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Educación
- University of Cambridge (BA|1957|Newnham College)
Bryn Mawr College
University of Oxford (Somerville College) - Ocupaciones
- short-story writer
novelist
academic
teacher - Relaciones
- Duffy, Peter (husband)
Byatt, Ian Charles Rayner (first husband)
Drabble, Margaret (sister)
Langdon, Helen (sister)
Holroyd, Michael (brother-in-law)
Swift, Rebecca (1) (niece) (mostrar todos 7)
Swift, Joe (nephew) - Organizaciones
- University of London (University College)
Central School of Art and Design - Premios y honores
- 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) (mostrar todos 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) - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - SHEFFIELD en 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (junio 2017)
***Group Read of The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt en 2015 Category Challenge (abril 2015)
JULY: Reading A. S. Byatt en Monthly Author Reads (septiembre 2011)
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