A.S. Byatt

Babel Tower

Daughter of deconstructed family searches for meaning amid cultural fragmentation

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A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt

British novelist and critic whose Possession won the Booker Prize and became one of the defining literary novels of the 1990s. Her fiction combines intellectual ambition with rich storytelling across Victorian and contemporary settings. She was one of the great champions of serious literary fiction.

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