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A. S. Byatt (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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A. S. Byatt began her career as a critic with Degrees of Freedom: The Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965) and has continued to produce occasional literary criticism. Her major work, however, has been in the novel; she has produced several novels and since the late 1980’s has published a considerable amount of short fiction.

Achievements

In 1986, A. S. Byatt received the Silver Pen Award for her novel Still Life (1985). She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1959 and was awarded an English Speaking Union...

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