Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual

Update: 2023-11-26

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In honour of novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, who died on November 16, Writers & Company revisits her 2009 interview with Eleanor Wachtel, recorded live at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. Byatt was there to launch her novel, The Children's Book, and to receive the festival's $10,000 Grand Prix. *Please note this interview includes reference to suicide. It originally aired on May 24, 2009.

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Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual

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Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual

Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual