AS Byatt and The Children's Book
Arts & Ideas24 Marras 2023

AS Byatt and The Children's Book

The perfect childhood and the failure of utopian experiments in living in Edwardian England were explored by AS Byatt in her 2009 novel The Children's Book. In this conversation with Matthew Sweet recorded in that year, they discuss her writing life, mythologising childhood and her meetings with Iris Murdoch, about whom she wrote two critical studies. A lecturer in English literature, AS Byatt's books drew on a wide range of reading and visiting art galleries and museums. In 1990 she won the Booker prize for her novel Possession.

You can find other conversations with writers on the Free Thinking programme website in a collection called Prose, Poetry and Drama

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