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BYATT, Dame Antonia (Susan), (Dame Antonia Duffy), DBE 1999 (CBE 1990); FRSL 1983; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 2003 , writer; born 24 Aug. 1936;
Daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor
Married 1st, 1959, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt (Sir I. C. R. Byatt) marriage dissolved. 1969; one daughter (one son deceased) 2nd, 1969, Peter John Duffy; two daughters.
Education Sheffield High School; The Mount School, York; Newnham College, Cambridge (BA Hons; Hon. Fellow 1999); Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA; Somerville College, Oxford.
Extra-Mural Lecturer, University of London, 1962-71; Lecturer in Literature, Central School of Art and Design, 1965-69; Lecturer in English, 1972-81, Senior. Lecturer, 1981-83, University College London.
Member of: Social Effects of Television Advisory Group, BBC, 1974-77; Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1977-82 Board of Communications and Cultural Studies, CNAA, 1978-84; Board of Creative and Performing Arts, CNAA, 1985-87; Kingman Committee of Inquiry into the teaching of English Language, (Department of Education and Science) 1987-88; Management Committee, Society of Authors, 1984-88 (Deputy Chairman, 1986, Chairman, 1986-88); Board, British Council, 1993-98 (Member of Literature Advisory Panel, 1990-98). Judge of literary prizes including Hawthornden, Booker, David Higham, Betty Trask
Broadcaster, reviewer
Academic Honours: Hon. Fellow, London Inst., 2000; Fellow UCL, 2004 Hon. DLitt: Bradford, 1987; DUniv York, 1991; Durham, 1991; Nottingham, 1992; Liverpool, 1993; Portsmouth, 1994; London, 1995; Sheffield, 2000; Kent 2004; Hon. LittD Cambridge, 1999; Hon. DLitt Winchester 2007; Oxford 2007
Prizes The PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Of Fiction prize, 1986 for STILL LIFE The Booker Prize, 1990, for POSSESSION Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, 1990 for POSSESSION The Eurasian section of Best Book in Commonwealth Prize, 1991 for POSSESSION Premio Malaparte, Capri, 1995; Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, California, 1998 for THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE’S EYE; Shakespeare Prize, Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, 2002; Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix, Canada, 2009
Publications: The Shadow of the Sun, 1964; Degrees of Freedom, 1965 (reprinted as Degrees of Freedom: the early novels of Iris Murdoch, 1994); The Game, 1967; Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time, 1970 (reprinted as Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time, 1989); Iris Murdoch 1976 The Virgin in the Garden, 1978; GEORGE ELIOT Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings , 1979 (editor); Still Life, 1985 Sugar and Other Stories, 1987; George Eliot: selected essays, 1989 (editor) Possession: a romance, 1990 Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues, 1990 (editor); Passions of the Mind, (essays), 1991; Angels and Insects (novellae),1992 The Matisse Stories (short stories),1993; The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: five fairy stories, 1994 Imagining Characters, 1995 (joint editor); New Writing 4, 1995 (joint editor); Babel Tower, 1996; New Writing 6, 1997 (joint editor); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, 1998 (editor); Elementals: Stories of fire and ice (short stories), 1998; The Biographer’s Tale, 2000; On Histories and Stories (essays), 2000; Portraits in Fiction, 2001; The Bird Hand Book, 2001 (Photographs by Victor Schrager Text By AS Byatt); A Whistling Woman, 2002 Little Black Book of Stories, 2003 The Children’s Book, 2009
Film ANGELS AND INSECTS filmed 1996; Directed by Philip Haas POSSESSION filmed 2002; Directed by Neil LaBute
Radio THE FREDERICA QUARTET (2002), BBC Radio; dramatised in 30 episodes by John Harvey and produced by Jeremy Mortimer.
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