A.S. Byatt
(1936-2023), Novelist, critic and editorDame Antonia Susan ('A.S.') Byatt
Sitter in 8 portraits
Internationally renowned for her novels and short-stories, Byatt was also a critic and essayist, writing on art and literary history and philosophy. Her novels included The Virgin in the Garden (1978) the first in the Frederica quartet, the Booker Prize-winning Possession (1990), five collections of short stories:Sugar and other Stories (1987), The Matisse Stories (1994), The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1995), Elementals (1998), and Little Black Book of Stories (2003), The Biographer's Tale (2000) and Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (2011). Byatt was appointed Dame in 1999.
A.S. Byatt (Portrait of A S Byatt : Red, Yellow, Green and Blue : 24 September 1997)
by Patrick Heron
oil on canvas, 1997
NPG 6414
by Fay Godwin
bromide print, circa 1971
NPG x12944
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, June 1992
NPG x88206
by Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith
resin print, circa 1995
NPG x87732
by Norman McBeath
bromide fibre print, 29 October 1997
NPG x126410
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