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A.S. BYATT READING
Oct 12 2009
5:00 P.M.
SOLARIUM INDIANA MEMORIAL UNION
The College Arts & Humanities Institute
presents a public reading by leading British novelist
A. S. Byatt
Monday, October 12, 2009
5:00 pm in the Solarium
Indiana Memorial Union
A.S. Byatt could be the patron saint of bookworms. She describes her often-bedridden childhood self as having been "kept alive by fictions"-mostly the novels of Dickens, Austen, and Scott. She has always been a self-described greedy reader, who weaves her many interests - biology, history, philosophy among them - into her work. The results are novels with, as she has often stated, "the whole world in them;" books that teem with characters and ideas, books in which reading and writing usually prove a matter of life, death, and freedom.
Already a formidable literary figure in England, A.S. Byatt achieved best-seller status in the United States in 1990 with her Booker Prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance, a story about a clandestine love affair between two Victorian writers and the two modern-day academics who unearth their secret; the novel was made into a film in 2002. Her novella Morpho Eugenia, in which she examines the similarities between anthills and 19th century manor households, was made into the film "Angels and Insects." Byatt's other fiction includes The Biographer's Tale, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, The Matisse Stories, The Little Black Book of Stories and the quartet of novels about the 1950s and 1960s (The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman). Her critical work includes Degrees of Freedom: The Novels of Iris Murdoch, Passions of the Mind: Selected Essays and On Histories and Stories. She is also the co-editor of Memory: An Anthology, edited with Harriet Harvey Wood, a non-fiction collection of essays. In 2009 her latest novel, The Children's Book, will be published in the UK and the US.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations can be made to address most needs. Please call 856-1169 for assistance.
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