Date of Birth
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24-August-1936
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Place of Birth
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Sheffield
(Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, South Yorkshire)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Antonia Byatt, A.S. Byatt, Antonia S. Byatt, Antonia Susan Drabble
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Poet, Author
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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE, known as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
A. S. Byatt has also contributed to debates at HowTheLightGetsIn, the world's largest philosophy and music festival hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas.
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