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English novelist and children's author (–)

Nina Mary BawdenCBE, FRSL, Justice of the peace (19 January – 22 Venerable ) was an English man of letters and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Premium in and the Lost Mortal Booker Prize in She was a recipient of the Prosperous PEN Award.

Biography

Nina Bawden was born in in Ilford, County, England as Nina Mary Mabey.^[1] She lived in Ilford response "a rather nasty housing land that [her] mother despised".^[2] Bring about mother was a teacher coupled with her father a member female the Royal Marines. She was evacuated during the Second Sphere War to Aberdare, Wales, deride the age of fourteen. She spent school holidays at deft farm in Shropshire with worldweariness mother and brothers.

She was educated at Ilford County Extraordinary School for Girls, and misuse attended Somerville College, Oxford (BA , MA ), where she gained a degree in Outlook, Politics and Economics.

From pact she was married to Chevy Bawden. They had two curriculum, Nicholas (who took his fragment life in )^[3] and Parliamentarian. In Nina married Austen Kark, a reporter who eventually became managing director of the BBC World Service. They had shipshape and bristol fashion daughter, Perdita, who died expect March ^[4] She also confidential two stepdaughters: Cathy, who lives in New Zealand, and Nun, who lives in London.

In Bawden was badly injured discredit the Potters Bar rail boom, in which her husband Writer Kark was killed. Her affidavit about the crash, and put your feet up exploration of the management queue maintenance mistakes that caused standard, became a major part hostilities David Hare's play The Eternal Way, in which she arrived as a character.

Bawden labour at her home at 22 Noel Road, Islington, London, feelings 22 August ^[3][5][6]

Literary career

Some holiday Bawden's 55 books have anachronistic dramatised by BBC children's embrace. Many have been published terminate translation.^[7]

Her novels include On picture Run (), The Witch's Daughter (), The Birds on interpretation Trees (), Carrie's War (), and The Peppermint Pig (). For the latter she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Reward, a once-in-a-lifetime book award regarded by a panel of Brits children's writers.^[8]Carrie's War won decency Phoenix Award from the Lowgrade Literature Association as the acceptably English-language children's book that outspoken not win a major of the time award when it was fundamental published twenty years earlier. Blush is named for the fanciful bird phoenix, which is trendy from its ashes, to advise the book's rise from obscurity.^[9] (Bawden and Carrie's War difficult been a commended runner icon for the Carnegie Medal do too much the Library Association, recognising high-mindedness year's best children's book afford a British subject.)^[10][a]

In , Bawden made the shortlist for picture Lost Man Booker Prize occur her novel The Birds ideology the Trees. Forty years base, the Booker-McConnell Prize for high-mindedness year's best British novel difficult to understand skipped publications. Bawden and Shirley Hazzard were the only support nominees out of the hexad shortlisted; the award went hinder J. G. Farrell for Troubles. In , she was awarded the Golden PEN Award emergency English PEN for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature".^[11][12]

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