English author A. S Byatt talks to an audience about her novel 'Possession'. First broadcast in March 2004 (Photo: A S Byatt. Credit:BBC)
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Welcome to a World Book Club podcast from the BBC World Service Remembering the wonderful British novelist and story writer A.S.
byatt, who died in November 2023 at the age of 87.
As well as fiction, Byatt wrote studies of poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge and lectured in English and American literature.
But it's for her rich imaginative stories and novels that she's best known especially for the novel Possession, which not only earned her the Booker Prize but became a worldwide bestseller in 2004.
As Byatt came to talk about Possession with World Book Club listeners, and here's another chance to hear her hello, welcome to the World Book Club, where this month our special guest here to answer questions from an audience and sent in by World Service listeners about her wonderful great novel Possession is the English author A.S.
byatt.
Besides being a novelist and story writer, A.S.
byatt is a scholar and her fictions are threaded with intelligence and learning, but they are also richly sensual, sexy, funny and action packed, a rare combination.
Since she started writing fiction in the late 1960s, she's published eight novels, including the Virgin in the Garden and Babel Tower, and as many collections of short stories.