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The cloistered life of academia, of ‘ivory towers’ and the ‘life of the mind’, is not one that is often associated with passion. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel exposes the falsity of that dichotomy
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.