Nina Bawden (1925–2012)
Author of Carrie's War
About the Author
Nina Bawden was born in Ilford, Essex, England on January 19, 1925. She received a B.A. in 1946 and a M.A. in 1951 from Somerville College, Oxford. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 40 books for both children and adults. Her first adult novel was published in 1953. Her books for adults show more include Circles of Deceit, The Ruffian on the Stair, and Dear Austen. Her first children's book The Secret Passage was published in 1963. Her children's books include Kept in the Dark, Humbug, The Birds on the Trees, Carrie's War, The Outside Child, Granny the Pag, and Off the Road. She received numerous awards for her work including the 1976 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Peppermint Pig and the 1977 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Afternoon of a Good Woman. She was made a CBE in 1995 and received the ST Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004. She died on August 22, 2012 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Variant Names: Nina Mary Mabey Kark Nina Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey Bawden, Nina Mary (Mabey) Kark, Nina Mary Kark, Nina (Mary) Bawden, Mary Mabey, Nina Mary Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey
Series
Works by Nina Bawden
Eyes of Green 2 copies
Fuga da Londra 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey
- Birthdate
- 1925-01-19
- Date of death
- 2012-08-22
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
England - Birthplace
- Ilford, London, England, UK
- Place of death
- North London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Aberdare, South Wales, UK
Shropshire, England, UK
Nauplion, Greece - Education
- University of Oxford (Somerville College|BA|1946 |MA|1951 - Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
- Occupations
- novelist
children's book author
memoirist
autobiographer - Relationships
- Kark, Austen (husband | widowed)
- Awards and honors
- Golden PEN Award (2004)
Commander of the British Empire (1995) - Agent
- Curtis Brown
- Short biography
- Nina Bawden, née Mabey, was born in Ilford, in Essex, England. In 1943 she went to Oxford University to read philosophy, politics and economics, and received her B.A. degree in 1946 and a M.A. in 1951. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 40 books for both children and adults. Her debut book, a crime novel called Who Calls the Tune, was published in 1953. Her other fiction for adults included Circles of Deceit (1987) and The Ruffian on the Stair. Her first children's book, The Secret Passage, was published in 1963. Her children's books included Kept in the Dark, Humbug, The Birds on the Trees, The Outside Child, Granny the Pag, and Off the Road. Her best-known book, Carrie's War (1973), was adapted for television in both 1974 and 2004. In 1994, she published In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography, and in 2005, she published the memoir Dear Austen, addressed to her second husband, Austen Kark, who had been killed three years earlier in a train derailment. She received numerous awards for her work, including the 1976 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Peppermint Pig and the 1977 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Afternoon of a Good Woman. She was made a CBE in 1995.
- Disambiguation notice
- Variant Names: Nina Mary Mabey Kark
Nina Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey Bawden, Nina Mary (Mabey) Kark, Nina Mary Kark, Nina (Mary) Bawden, Mary Mabey, Nina Mary Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey
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Nina Bawden Readalong in Virago Modern Classics (May 2013)
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Booker Prize (2)
1964 Project (1)
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- Works
- 54
- Also by
- 12
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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