- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAntonia Susan Drabble
- Height5′ 2½″ (1.59 m)
- A.S. Byatt was born on August 24, 1936 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), Possession (2002) and Angels and Insects (1995). She was married to Peter John Duffy and Ian Charles Rayner Byatt. She died on November 16, 2023 in London, England, UK.
- SpousesPeter John Duffy(1969 - November 16, 2023) (her death, 2 children)Ian Charles Rayner Byatt(1959 - 1969) (divorced, 2 children)
- RelativesJoe Swift(Niece or Nephew)Margaret Drabble(Sibling)
- She was awarded the Booker Prize for her novel, "Possession.".
- She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to literature.
- She was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
- She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, and Oxford. She began teaching at University College London in 1962, and published her first novel, Shadows of a Sun, two years later.
- [on J.K. Rowling and the 'Harry Potter' series]: "Ms Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip.
- On personal power: The true exercise of freedom is -- cannily and wisely and with grace -- to move inside what space confines -- and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
- J K Rowling is a brilliant inventor of details of magic, but her world has its origin in a boarding school, a place to which I do not want to return.
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