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Biographical note
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.Marvellous... A major novel, inspiring laughter and tears
- Iris Murdoch,
Glorious… Frederica is a magnificent creation; awkward, fierce, intellectually voracious and sexually inexperienced
- Francesca Segal, author of The Awkward Age,
Affords enormous and continuous pleasure
- Anita Brookner,
Byatt is a wonderful writer, constantly engaging wherever she takes us
The Times