California Lectures Presents A. S. Byatt

On Thursday, October 22, A.S Byatt will present at the Crest Theater in downtown Sacramento. Here are the event's details:

A.S. Byatt
Booker Prize | Bestselling Author
The Children’s Book (Oct. 2009), Possession,
Still Life, Angels and Insects
Time of event: 7:30 pm

A.S. Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. She has received numerous literary awards including the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Still Life, and the Booker Prize for Fiction for Possession: A Romance. Possession and her novella, Angels and Insects, are adapted into highly regarded films. A distinguished literary critic and teacher, Byatt was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and received the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 2002.

Byatt's latest novel, The Children's Book, was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize.

“A.S. Byatt is a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights.”
– The New York Times Book Review

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