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Author Dame Antonia Byatt, known as AS Byatt, died at home this week aged 87 - Possession and more books she wrote.

The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed

Writer and critic won the Booker Prize in 1990 for her novel ‘Possession’

Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was once described as the most consciously intellectual woman writer since George Eliot; her dense, cerebral fiction looked set never to command a large public until her novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990 and transformed her into an international literary celebrity.

AS Byatt, the acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died aged 87.

TRIBUTES  have been paid to Booker Prize winning novelist AS Byatt who went to school in York.

Author AS Byatt, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession , has died at the age of 87. Byatt's publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the author...

  A. S. Byatt lives and writes in her handsome west London house and, in the summer months, in her house in the south of France. Both are filled with art, predominantly by her contemporaries, libraries of extravagant, Borgesian range and curiosa of many kinds, hinting at her unusual fecundity...

Dame Antonia Byatt has died at the age of 87, her publisher has said.The author, known as AS Byatt, won the 1990 Booker Prize for romance […]

Author AS Byatt, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, has died at the age of 87....