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Also Known As Antonia Susan Drabble • Antonia Susan Byatt
Born August 24, 1936 • Sheffield • England
Died November 16, 2023 (aged 87) • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Awards And Honors Booker Prize (1990)
Notable Works “A Whistling Woman” • “Angels & Insects” • “Babel Tower” • “Degrees of Freedom” • “Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice” • “Passions of the Mind” • “Peacock & Vine” • “Possession” • “Ragnarok: The End of the Gods” • “Still Life” • “Sugar and Other Stories” • “The Biographer’s Tale” • “The Children’s Book” • “The Game” • “The Matisse Stories” • “The Virgin in the Garden”
Notable Family Members sister Margaret Drabble

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