"I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite."

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About A. S. Byatt

English novelist, critic, and scholar whose fiction combined intellectual depth with formal experimentation. She received broad acclaim for works including Possession, which won the Booker Prize. Her career also included influential literary criticism and essays.

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