AS Byatt, ingenious and cerebral novelist who won the Booker

Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was once described as the most consciously intellectual woman writer since George Eliot; her dense, cerebral fiction looked set never to command a large public until her novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990 and transformed her into an international literary celebrity.

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