Author of Possession and The Children’s Book follows previous winners including Henry Moore, Václav Havel and the people of Austria
AS Byatt has won a major Dutch award worth €150,000 (£115,000) for her “exceptional contribution” to arts and culture.
The Booker prize-winning novelist was named winner of the Erasmus prize, which goes annually to a person or an institution, on Sunday. Byatt was cited by the judges for “her inspiring contribution to ‘life writing’, a literary genre that encompasses historical novels, biographies and autobiographies”, and which she has “reshaped … in her own way”. The judges described Byatt “as a born storyteller with a keen eye for relations in public and private life”.
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The Booker prize-winning novelist was named winner of the Erasmus prize, which goes annually to a person or an institution, on Sunday. Byatt was cited by the judges for “her inspiring contribution to ‘life writing’, a literary genre that encompasses historical novels, biographies and autobiographies”, and which she has “reshaped … in her own way”. The judges described Byatt “as a born storyteller with a keen eye for relations in public and private life”.
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