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AS Byatt
Mark Lawson talks to AS Byatt after her Man Booker Prize nomination for her novel The Children's Book. Byatt talks about her passion for literature and how she has managed to combine family life with the solitary world of a writer.
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Mon 14 Dec 2009
03:00
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Byatt's fifth novel, Possession: A Romance won the Booker Prize in 1990. The story is written in many different forms, including poems, letters and diary extracts, and moves between the world of 20th-Century academia and the lives of a pair of fictional Victorian poets.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Mark Lawson |
| Participant | AS Byatt |
| Producer | Suzy Jaffe |
| Executive Producer | Eamon Hardy |
Broadcast
- Mon 14 Dec 2009 03:00
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