![]() ![]() ![]() I have never Googled myself.” Since Possession, Byatt has published eight more works of fiction The Children’s Book (Knopf), which has just been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, is her ninth, matching and arguably surpassing Possession in breadth and ambition. “A poet in the British Library asked me how often I Googled myself,” she said, “and I looked at her in horror. I find this state of affairs inhibiting and depressing,” she told me in our e-mail interview in late July. But Dame Byatt, who was awarded the DBE ten years ago (and the CBE nine years earlier), credits not the Booker Prize but the Web with her considerably raised profile: “Everything I say or write is now perpetuated and immediately accessible. ![]() Byatt has been publishing novels since the mid-’60s (her first, The Shadow of the Sun, came out in 1964), but it wasn’t until 1990, when she won the Booker Prize for Possession-the story of a pair of contemporary scholars whose research on two Victorian poets reveals an extramarital affair between them-that she became an international (literary) household name. ![]()
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