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11 The Biographer’s Tale
Campbell, Jane. "11 The Biographer’s Tale". A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , pp.
Campbell, J. (). 11 The Biographer’s Tale. In A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination (pp. ). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Campbell, J. 11 The Biographer’s Tale. A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp.
Campbell, Jane. "11 The Biographer’s Tale" In A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Campbell J. 11 The Biographer’s Tale. In: A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press; p
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A.S. Byatt: I Have Not Yet Written Enough
This interview originally appeared in Dutch, in Trouw, Dec. 3,
The setting for my talk with the writer A.S. Byatt is one she could have described to perfection. Outside, on an Amsterdam canal, old houses regard their reflection in dark water. Inside, discreet light shines on paintings and artworks and candles illuminate the bookshelves that line the hotel bar. Dame Antonia has asked me to meet her here at six, but when I arrive she already has a visitor: the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, who has stopped by to bring his old friend a new selection of his work in French. He orders whiskey, she a glass of champagne. Then these two white-haired, keen-eyed literary eminences retire to a side room to talk while inom chat in the bar with Peter Duffy, Byatt’s genial, bearded husband. It’s a quiet moment, but in the light of current affairs it feels poignant, a scene from a fading dream of cultural
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Celebrated British author A.S. Byatt—a scholar and novelist whose novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and brought her international renown—has died at the age of
A statement released this morning by her longtime UK publisher, Chatto & Windus, reports that Byatt &#;died peacefully at home surrounded by close family.&#;
Byatt&#;s longtime editor, Jenny Uglow, penned the following tribute to her client and friend:
Working with Antonia Byatt was full of surprises. She was fascinated by metamorphosis, from the unexpected turn of individual lives, which she explored in early books like Still Life, to the chilling fantasy of short stories like &#;A Stone Woman,&#; and she was defiantly original, as with the inclusion of the poetry in Possession, or the form of her most original book, The Biographer’s Tale. Like many writers, she could hold the germ of a story in her head for a long time, sometimes for years, but when it emerged she would work on it assiduously