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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."

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."

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.

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

Kirjandusfestivali HeadRead raames toimus Kirjanike Maja Musta laega saalis avalik vestlus tuntud ja tunnustatud briti kirjaniku A. S. Byattiga, mida juhtis tõlkija ja kirjastaja Krista Kaer. Lisainfo: http://kultuur.err.ee/v/kirjandus/4dfb285b-8c2b-4f8c-b24a-a273cec92bee

Novelist A S Byatt talks to Tobias Döring (President of the German Shakespeare Society) about William Shakespeare at the British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin (recorded on 31 January 2014) Find out more: http://literature.britishcouncil.org/news/2014/january/shakespeareour-contemporary-berlin-literature-seminar