British writer Antonia Susan Byatt died at the age of 87. The BBC reports this, citing the Penguin Random House publishing house.
According to the publisher, the writer died at home surrounded by close relatives. Byatt was described as a “Sheffield girl with a strong European sensibility”, with an astonishing intelligence.
Antonia Susan Byatt was born in Sheffield in 1936 into the family of a lawyer and philologist. He received his philology education at Newnham College, Cambridge University, Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, USA, and Sommerville College, Oxford University. Byatt later taught at the University of London, the Central School of Art and Design and University College London.
The author’s first novel, The Shadow of the Sun, was published in 1964. One of Byatt’s most famous works was The Children’s Book, published in 2009 and nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He won the Man Booker Prize for Literature in 1990 with his novel To Have. Medusa’s Ankles, a collection of short stories, was published in 2021 and is Byette’s latest work.
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