Dame AS Byatt whose real name was Antonia Susan Byatt, a novelist, critic, poet and winner of the Booker Prize for her novel "Possession" in 1990 passed away at the age of 87 as per her publishers.

Byatt, whose career spanned nearly 60 years, was best known for her 1990 novel Possession: A Romance.She was the sister of the novelist Margaret Drabble, and the siblings drew parallels with the ...