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A.S. Byatt (1936–2023)

Autor(a) de Possession

66+ Works 34,665 Membros 803 Críticas 228 Favorited

About the Author

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 mais 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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Séries

Obras por A.S. Byatt

Possession (1990) 12,903 exemplares
The Children's Book (2009) 3,797 exemplares
Angels & Insects (1992) 2,148 exemplares
Babel Tower (1996) 1,910 exemplares
The Virgin in the Garden (1978) 1,745 exemplares
Still Life (1985) 1,427 exemplares
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994) 1,423 exemplares
The Matisse Stories (1993) 1,183 exemplares
The Biographer's Tale (2000) 1,177 exemplares
Little Black Book of Stories (2003) 1,006 exemplares
A Whistling Woman (2002) 913 exemplares
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (2011) 902 exemplares
The Game (1967) 731 exemplares
Sugar and Other Stories (1987) 495 exemplares
The Shadow of the Sun (1964) 439 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Editor — 190 exemplares
Portraits in Fiction (2001) 83 exemplares
Deadly Sins (1994) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories (2021) 79 exemplares
Memory (1769) 48 exemplares
Writers on Artists (2001) 38 exemplares
Vintage Byatt (2004) 22 exemplares
Morpho Eugenia {novella} (1992) — Autor — 20 exemplares
New Writing 4 (1995) — Editor — 11 exemplares
BP Portrait Award 2003 (2003) 7 exemplares
New Writing 6 (1997) 7 exemplares
Edmund De Waal 'from Zero' (2010) 6 exemplares
Iris Murdoch (1976) 5 exemplares
The Frederica Quartet (2003) 5 exemplares
A Lamia in the Cevennes {story} (1995) 3 exemplares
On The Conjugial Angel (2021) 2 exemplares
The Women Writers Handbook (2020) 2 exemplares
Possession | Angels & Insects — Autor — 2 exemplares
Création (1996) 2 exemplares
Dolls' Eyes [short fiction] (2013) 2 exemplares
The July Ghost (1991) 2 exemplares
Cold {story} 2 exemplares
2001 1 exemplar
Envy {story} 1 exemplar

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My Ántonia (1918) — Introdução, algumas edições13,537 exemplares
A Montanha Mágica (1924) — Introdução, algumas edições9,546 exemplares
The Mill on the Floss (1860) — Introdução, algumas edições8,657 exemplares
O Pioneers! (1913) — Introdução, algumas edições6,297 exemplares
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) — Introdução, algumas edições5,890 exemplares
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1120) — Introdução, algumas edições5,167 exemplares
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1048) — Introdução, algumas edições2,898 exemplares
The Bostonians (1886) — Introdução, algumas edições2,741 exemplares
The Bell (1958) — Introdução, algumas edições2,026 exemplares
The Professor's House (1925) — Introdução, algumas edições1,927 exemplares
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (2001) — Introdução, algumas edições1,780 exemplares
A Lost Lady (1923) — Contribuidor — 1,615 exemplares
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,231 exemplares
The Annotated Brothers Grimm (2004) — Introdução, algumas edições1,140 exemplares
The Pink Fairy Book (1897) — Introdução, algumas edições956 exemplares
The House in Paris (1935) — Introdução, algumas edições879 exemplares
Shadows on the Rock (1931) — Introdução, algumas edições864 exemplares
Traitor's Purse (1941) — Introdução, algumas edições811 exemplares
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories (1974) — Introdução, algumas edições687 exemplares
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography (1934) — Introdução, algumas edições591 exemplares
The History of England (1791) — Introdução, algumas edições586 exemplares
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) — Introdução, algumas edições532 exemplares
The Brontes Went to Woolworths (1931) — Introdução, algumas edições494 exemplares
Song of Songs {broadside} (1935) — Prefácio, algumas edições388 exemplares
The Fifth Queen Trilogy (1962) — Introdução, algumas edições362 exemplares
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 336 exemplares
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contribuidor, algumas edições298 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999) — Contribuidor — 266 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) — Contribuidor — 240 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
First Folio: A Little Book of Folio Forewords (2008) — Contribuidor — 179 exemplares
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings (1990) — Editor — 144 exemplares
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (2006) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Granta 115: The F Word (2011) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Best European Fiction 2013 (2012) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Possession [2002 film] (2002) — Original novel — 72 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Ovid Metamorphosed (2000) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The Man of Fifty (1821) — Prefácio, algumas edições61 exemplares
The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm (2010) — Introdução — 56 exemplares
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease (2008) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing (1993) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Dramatic Monologues (1991) — Selection and Introduction — 47 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
La Bible (1990) — Prefácio — 25 exemplares
Angels and Insects [1995 film] (2002) — Original novel — 20 exemplares
Best Short Stories 1991 (1991) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Founders and Followers (1992) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection (2008) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Great fairytales, part 3, Love (2009) — Posfácio — 2 exemplares
Finding the place : selected essays on English literature (1994) — Introdução — 1 exemplar
[Anthologie de nouvelles anglaises] (2001) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Het beste uit Rainbow : een Bijenkorf selectie (1994) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Duffy, Antonia Susan
Outros nomes
Byatt, Antonia Susan
Drabble, Antonia Susan (meisjesnaam)
Data de nascimento
1936-08-24
Data de falecimento
2023-11-16
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Groot-Brittannië
Local de nascimento
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Locais de residência
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Educação
University of Cambridge (BA|1957|Newnham College)
Bryn Mawr College
University of Oxford (Somerville College)
Ocupações
short-story writer
novelist
academic
teacher
Relações
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)
Organizações
University of London (University College)
Central School of Art and Design
Prémios e menções honrosas
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)

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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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Discussions

BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - SHEFFIELD em 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (Junho 2017)
***Group Read of The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt em 2015 Category Challenge (Abril 2015)
JULY: Reading A. S. Byatt em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2011)

Críticas

Um livro magnífico, fruto de um trabalho laborioso e complexo que deve ser aplaudido. Peca apenas por se tornar demasiado longo, cansando o leitor com as suas paragens narrativas excessivas.
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Estatísticas

Obras
66
Also by
70
Membros
34,665
Popularidade
#544
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
803
ISBN
525
Línguas
20
Marcado como favorito
228

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