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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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