biography
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Byatt, Dame A(ntonia) S(usan)
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née Drabble
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, the sister of Margaret Drabble. She studied at Cambridge, and became a lecturer in English at University College London. Her novels include Virgin in the Garden (1978) and Still-Life (1985), the first two parts of a projected sequence tracing English life from the mid-1950s to the present day, and Possession (1990, Booker). Later works include Angels and Insects (1992), Babel Tower (1996), The Biographer's Tale (2000), and A Whistling Woman (2002). Among her short story collections are The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994) and Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1999), and her several critical works include a monograph on Iris Murdoch. She was made a dame in 1999. |
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