īyatt was educated at two independent boarding schools, Sheffield High School and The Mount School, a Quaker boarding school at York. As a result of the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War the family moved to York. The mother was a Shavian and the father a Quaker. The Drabble father participated in the placement of Jewish refugees in Sheffield during the 1930s. Her brother Richard Drabble KC is a barrister. Her sisters are the novelist Margaret Drabble and the art historian Helen Langdon.
Early life īyatt was born in Sheffield as Antonia Susan Drabble, the eldest child of John Drabble, QC, and Kathleen Bloor, a scholar of Browning. She has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her other critical studies include Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time (1970) and Portraits in Fiction (2001).īyatt was awarded the Shakespeare Prize in 2002, the Erasmus Prize in 2016, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2017 and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2018. Her critical work includes two studies of Dame Iris Murdoch (who was a friend and mentor), Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965) and Iris Murdoch: A Critical Study (1976). 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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