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“Booker Prize” winner
British author Antonia Susan Piatt has died aged 87
Author AS Byat passed away at the age of 87.
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London. British author Antonia Susan Piatt has died, her publisher Chatto & Windus announced on Friday at the age of 87 at home with her family by her side. The writer has written about 25 novels in his career since 1964. In 1990, he won the Booker Prize, the most important award for literature in Great Britain, for his novel “Possession”.
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“Antonia’s books are the most beautiful jewel boxes of stories and ideas,” said her publisher Chatto & Windus of the Penguin Random House Publishing Group.
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The author was born Antonia Susan Trabble in 1936 in Sheffield, England. Byatt initially worked as a university lecturer and literary critic, while his younger sister made a name for herself as a writer.
But after a few highly unsuccessful novels, the tide turned. Piatt – who kept the author’s name after her first husband – won the Booker Prize for Obsession and was honored by the Queen. He later published “The Tower of Babel,” “The Little Black Book of Stories” and “The Book of Children.”
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