‘I loved the woman I got to know’, says Neil LaBute in tribute to AS Byatt

Author AS Byatt died age 87 (Ian West/PA)

American playwright and film director Neil LaBute has paid tribute to the late author Dame Antonia Byatt and said she “had an enormous wit and an even bigger heart”.

Dame Antonia, known as AS Byatt, was “peacefully at home surrounded by close family” when she died on Thursday at the age of 87, according to her publisher.