A.S. Byatt was born on August 24, 1936 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England as Antonia Susan Drabble. She is a writer, known for Possession (2002), Angels and Insects (1995) and Newsnight at 30 (2010). She has been married to Peter John Duffy since 1969. She was previously married to Ian Charles Rayner Byatt.
Man Booker Prize, Shakespeare Prize, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Movies
Possession, Angels & Insects
Star Sign
Virgo
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J K Rowling is a brilliant inventor of details of magic, but her world has its origin in a boarding school, a place to which I do not want to return.
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On personal power: The true exercise of freedom is -- cannily and wisely and with grace -- to move inside what space confines -- and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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[on J.K. Rowling and the 'Harry Potter' series]: "Ms Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip.
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