Her novel The Children's Book was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize and won the 2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Virgin in the Garden (1978) was the first of The Quartet, a tetralogy of novels that continued with Still Life (1985), Babel Tower (1996) and A Whistling Woman (2002).īyatt's novel Possession: A Romance received the 1990 Booker Prize, whilst her short story collection The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994) received the 1995 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Byatt spent a symbolic 11 years teaching (the same length of time as her son had lived), then began full-time writing in 1983. In the same week she accepted, a drunk driver killed her son as he walked home from school. Byatt took a teaching job in 1972 so as to help pay for the education of her only son. It was during Byatt's time at university that she began work on her first two novels, subsequently published by Chatto & Windus as Shadow of a Sun (1964 reprinted in 1991 with its originally intended title, The Shadow of the Sun) and The Game (1967). Īfter attending the University of Cambridge, she married in 1959 and moved to Durham. Her books have been widely translated, into more than thirty languages. ə t/ BY-ət), is an English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy DBE HonFBA ( née Drabble born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A.
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