Honored Award for Anthony Bayette from the Erasmus Foundation Automatic translate

AMSTERDAM. 2016 Erasmus Prize awarded to British writer Anthony Bayette.

Erasmusprijs, established by the Erasmus Foundation, has been awarded for its contribution to pan-European culture since 1958. The relevance of this award in conditions when European civilization is undergoing difficult tests, only increases. Among its laureates are such outstanding personalities as the first president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, the artist Marc Chagall, film director Ingmar Bergman, actor and director Charlie Chaplin. Last year, 150 thousand € for the efforts made in the dissemination of knowledge were handed over by the members of the royal family to representatives of the Wikipedia Community.

Antonia Susan Bayette, who will celebrate her 80th birthday in August, is a famous writer, scientist, and doctor of sciences. For the novel Possession, in the Russian translation - “Possess”, in 1990 she was awarded the Booker Prize. The novel worthily continued the tradition of Victorian prose, recalling the best works of Jane Austen, the works of Stendhal and Hardy. Two storylines, dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries, are combined into a philological detective story, whose ups and downs are interesting to observe up to an amazing denouement.

Bayonet’s novels (Antonia Susan Byatt): “Possess”, “Children’s Book” (included in Booker’s shortlist after 19 years), her essays, stories, short stories about artists, writers are multi-genre, multi-layered, encyclopedic. In addition to the fascinating plot, the reader gets acquainted with the culture, history, social structure, traditions of England. The British The Times included her in 2008 in the list of 50 best writers in Britain since 1945. Bayette is the winner of many literary awards, an honorary doctor of most British universities, and holder of the French Order of Arts and Literature.

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