Antonia S Byatt
(Antonia Susan Byatt Duffy)
(1936 - )Sister of Margaret Drabble
A.S. Byatt was educated in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, and taught at the Central School of Art before becoming a full-time writer. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.
Series
Frederica
1. The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
2. Still Life (1985)
3. Babel Tower (1996)
4. A Whistling Woman (2002)
The Frederica Quartet (omnibus) (2003)
1. The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
2. Still Life (1985)
3. Babel Tower (1996)
4. A Whistling Woman (2002)
The Frederica Quartet (omnibus) (2003)
Novels
The Game (1967)
Possession (1990)
The Shadow of the Sun (1991)
The Biographer's Tale (2000)
The Children's Book (2009)
Possession (1990)
The Shadow of the Sun (1991)
The Biographer's Tale (2000)
The Children's Book (2009)
Collections
The Matisse Stories (1975)
Sugar (1987)
Passions of the Mind (1990)
Angels and Insects (1992)
Deadly Sins (1994) (with Mary Gordon, Richard Howard, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, William Trevor, John Updike and Gore Vidal)
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994)
Elementals (1998)
The Little Black Book of Stories (2003)
Sugar (1987)
Passions of the Mind (1990)
Angels and Insects (1992)
Deadly Sins (1994) (with Mary Gordon, Richard Howard, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, William Trevor, John Updike and Gore Vidal)
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994)
Elementals (1998)
The Little Black Book of Stories (2003)
Novellas
Body Art (2011)
The Pink Ribbon (2011)
Raw Material (2011)
A Stone Woman (2011)
The Thing in the Forest (2011)
Dolls' Eyes (2013)
The Pink Ribbon (2011)
Raw Material (2011)
A Stone Woman (2011)
The Thing in the Forest (2011)
Dolls' Eyes (2013)
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Unruly Times (1970)
Degrees of Freedom (1994)
On Histories and Stories (2000)
Portraits in Fiction (2001)
Memory (2008) (with Harriet Harvey Wood)
Peacock & Vine (2016)
Degrees of Freedom (1994)
On Histories and Stories (2000)
Portraits in Fiction (2001)
Memory (2008) (with Harriet Harvey Wood)
Peacock & Vine (2016)
Anthologies containing stories by Antonia S Byatt
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Literary Ghost (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
The Literary Ghost (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Short stories
| The Story of the Eldest Princess | |||
| The July Ghost (1982) | |||
| The Next Room (1987) | |||
| A Lamia in the Cevennes (1995) | |||
| Cold (1998) | World Fantasy (nominee) |
Awards
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Books about Antonia S Byatt
Essays on the Fiction of A.S. Byatt (1989) by Alexa Alfer
A. S. Byatt (1996) by Kathleen Coyne Kelly
A. S. Byatt (2001) by Christien Franken
A. S. Byatt's Possession (2002) by Catherine Burgass
A. S. Byatt (1996) by Kathleen Coyne Kelly
A. S. Byatt (2001) by Christien Franken
A. S. Byatt's Possession (2002) by Catherine Burgass
Antonia S Byatt recommends
A Case Examined (1965) A L Barker "The dialogue is subtle and the atmosphere of the French visits economically and brilliantly conveyed." | Holiday (1974) Stanley Middleton "At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily recognizable. The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour." | Obabakoak (1992) Bernardo Atxaga "At once terribly moving and wildly funny." | |
In the Place of Fallen Leaves (1993) Tim Pears "Constantly delightful and constantly surprising... This novel is something completely new and exciting... Comic and wry and elegiac and shrewd and thoughtful all at once. Please read it." |  Hallucinating Foucault (1996) Patricia Duncker "One of the best novels of the year." | Impossible Saints (1997) Michèle Roberts "Wicked and delicious." | |
The Last Samurai (2000) Helen De Witt "A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form, funny and tragic and intriguing and over the top and perfectly controlled." |  Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000) Helen Simpson "It is the book's truthfulness that makes it both intensely tragic and intensely comic." | All Souls' Day (2001) Cees Nooteboom "Nooteboom is one of the great modern novelists." | |
Runaway (2004) Alice Munro "The greatest living short story writer." | The Lost Dog (2007) Michelle de Kretser "This is the best novel I have read in a long time." | Orphans of Eldorado (2010) Milton Hatoum "A tough and gifted novelist." | |
Jamrach's Menagerie (2011) Carol Birch "Completely original." |
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