Byatt to receive prize at Montreal literary festival

Published Saturday November 29th, 2008

MONTREAL - Acclaimed British author A.S. Byatt has been named the winner of the 2009 Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix.

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A.S. Byatt

The prize, worth $10,000, will be awarded next spring during the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, which runs April 22 to 26.

Byatt is perhaps best-known for her 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession."

Previous winners of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix include Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster and Norman Mailer.

The award honours a lifetime of literary achievement by an international writer.

This is the first time it's been given to a writer from England.

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