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Encore: A. S. Byatt
Manage episode 400434847 series 2523892
This week, we reach into the archives for a 2009 appearance by the late A. S. Byatt. The author and critic published 11 novels, 6 collections of short stories, and 9 volumes of short stories, as well as editing the Oxford Book of English Short Stories and several other anthologies. Byatt’s best-known novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and was made into a film; the book she discusses in this City Arts & Lectures appearance, The Children’s Book, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1999, she was made a Dame of the British Empire for her contributions to English literature. On October 26, 2009, A. S. Byatt came to the Herbst Theater in San Francisco to be interviewed on stage by poet Robert Hass.
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Manage episode 400434847 series 2523892
This week, we reach into the archives for a 2009 appearance by the late A. S. Byatt. The author and critic published 11 novels, 6 collections of short stories, and 9 volumes of short stories, as well as editing the Oxford Book of English Short Stories and several other anthologies. Byatt’s best-known novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and was made into a film; the book she discusses in this City Arts & Lectures appearance, The Children’s Book, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1999, she was made a Dame of the British Empire for her contributions to English literature. On October 26, 2009, A. S. Byatt came to the Herbst Theater in San Francisco to be interviewed on stage by poet Robert Hass.
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