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    Erasmus Prize winner 2016 A.S. Byatt
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    Erasmus Prize winner 2016 A.S. Byatt

    A film by Shanti van Dam
    episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 01
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    episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 01

    British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal."
    RADIO DRAMA THE JULY GHOST by A S Byatt
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    RADIO DRAMA THE JULY GHOST by A S Byatt

    The July Ghost by A S Byatt was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. Story: Ghost story: a young man, whose girlfriend up and left him for another man, is kind of reeling from the shock of it – he needs to find another place to live, so he rents a room in a woman’s house. There’s a husband in the picture – but things are prickly between them – the young man is a witness to the weirdness in the relationship, and the weirdness of the woman herself. One day, he sees a little boy sitting up in the tree, staring down at him. He says to him, “You be careful up there … don’t fall …” The boy doesn’t respond. There’s something about the boy that really strikes him. Thanks for the image: To avoid copyright strikes any music in a radio play has been removed and can be found elsewhere on free to listen channels Please could you leave a short comment detailing your thoughts so as I may upload content preferred by you. Many thanks to you all
    episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 02
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    episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 02

    British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal."
    MEDUSA'S ANKLES
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    MEDUSA'S ANKLES

    Written and Directed by Bonnie Wright. Based on a short story by A.S. Byatt. Staring Kerry Fox, Jason Isaacs, Chanel Cresswell and Anna Shaffer. Produced by Bonnie Wright and Andy Surry. Edited by Andre Castiglioni. Cinematography by Will Humphris. Music by David Schweitzer. Casting by Lucy Hellier Set Design by Natasha Piper. Costume Design by Hannah Campbell. Hair Design by Jenny Harling Make Up Design by Sophie Slotover Sound Design Terressa Tate. VFX by Electric Theatre Company. Graded by Matt Watson.
    Conversations on Making - Edmund De Waal and A S Byatt
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    Conversations on Making - Edmund De Waal and A S Byatt

    A.S. Byatt, author of The Children's Book
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    A.S. Byatt, author of The Children's Book

    A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book. http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307398079&ref=video_yt_Byatt
    AS Byatt and John Carey win The James Tait Black Prizes for Fiction and Biography 2009
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    AS Byatt and John Carey win The James Tait Black Prizes for Fiction and Biography 2009

    The winners of Britain's oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, have been announced. This year's winners are AS Byatt for the fiction prize and John Carey for the biography prize. http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/james-tait-black-200810 http://www.ed.ac.uk/james-tait-black

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