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Nina Bawden
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, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an
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novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the
Lost Man Booker Prize The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until 1970 the pri ...
in 2010. She is one of very few who have both served as a Booker judge and made a Booker shortlist as an author. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.


Biography

Nina Bawden was born in 1925 in Ilford,
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, England as Nina Mary Mabey.She lived in Ilford in "a rather nasty housing estate that ermother despised". Her mother was a teacher and her father a member of the Royal Marines. She was evacuated during World War II to Aberdare, Wales, at the age of fourteen. She spent school holidays at a farm in
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with her mother and brothers. She attended Ilford County High School for Girls;
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(B.A. 1946, M.A. 1951),
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, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. From 1946 to 1954 Bawden was married to Harry Bawden. They had two sons, Nicholas (who took his own life in 1981) and Robert. In 1954 she married Austen Kark, a reporter who eventually became managing director of the BBC World Service. They had a daughter, Perdita, who died in March 2012. She also had two stepdaughters: Cathy, who lives in
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, and Teresa, who lives in London. In 2002 Bawden was badly injured in the
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, in which her husband Austen Kark was killed. Her testimony about the crash, and her exploration of the management and maintenance mistakes that caused it, became a major part of David Hare's play '' The Permanent Way'', in which she appeared as a character. Bawden died at her home in north London on 22 August 2012.


Literary career

Some of Bawden's 55 books have been dramatised by
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Children's television. Many have been published in translation. Her novels include '' On the Run'' (1964), '' The Witch's Daughter'' (1966), '' The Birds on the Trees'' (1970), ''
Carrie's War ''Carrie's War'' is a 1973 English children's novel by Nina Bawden set during the Second World War. It follows two young London evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick, into a Welsh village. It is often read in schools for its literary a ...
'' (1973), and ''The Peppermint Pig'' (1975). For the latter she won the 1976
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annual recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It was conferred upon the author ...
, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. ''Carrie's War'' won the 1993
Phoenix Award The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the ...
from the
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as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major contemporary award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to suggest the book's rise from obscurity. (Bawden and ''Carrie's War'' had been a commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.) In 2010, Bawden and ''The Birds on the Trees'' made the shortlist for the
Lost Man Booker Prize The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until 1970 the pri ...
. Forty years earlier, the Booker-McConnell Prize for the year's best British novel had skipped 1970 publications. Bawden and
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were the only living nominees out of the six shortlisted; the award went to J. G. Farrell for ''
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''. In 2004, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by
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for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature". ;Runner up for other awards *1987 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize – ''Circles of Deceit'' *1995 Shortlisted for the
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– ''The Real Plato Jones'' *1996 Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal – ''Granny the Pag''


Works

*''Who Calls the Tune?'' (1953) *''The Old Flamingo'' (1954) *''Change Here for Babylon'' (1955) *''The Solitary Child'' (1956) *''Devil by the Sea'' (1957) *''Just Like a Lady'' (1960) *''In Honour Bound'' (1961) *''The Secret Passage'' (1963) *''Tortoise by Candlelight'' (1963) *''The House of Secrets'' (1963) *'' On the Run'' (1964); US title, ''Three on the Run'' *''Under the Skin'' (1964) *''A Little Love, A Little Learning'' (1965) *''The White Horse Gang'' (1966) *'' The Witch's Daughter'' (1966) *''A Handful of Thieves'' (1967) *''A Woman of My Age'' (1967) *''The Grain of Truth'' (1969) *''The Runaway Summer'' (1969) *'' The Birds on the Trees'' (1970) *''Squib'' (1971) *''Anna Apparent'' (1972) *''
Carrie's War ''Carrie's War'' is a 1973 English children's novel by Nina Bawden set during the Second World War. It follows two young London evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick, into a Welsh village. It is often read in schools for its literary a ...
'' (1973) — winner of the 1993 Phoenix Award *''George Beneath a Paper Moon'' (1974) *''The Peppermint Pig'' (1975) — winner of the 1976 Guardian Prize *''Afternoon of a Good Woman'' (1976) *''Solitary Child'' (1976) *''Rebel on a Rock'' (1978) *''Familiar Passions'' (1979) *''The Robbers'' (1979) *''Walking Naked'' (1981) *''William Tell'' (1981), a picture book *''Kept in the Dark'' (1982) *''The Ice House'' (1983) *''Saint Francis of Assisi'' (1983), a picture book *''The Finding'' (1985) *''On the Edge'' (1985) *''Princess Alice'' (1986) *'' Circles of Deceit'' (1987) *''Henry'' (1988) *''Keeping Henry'' (1988) *''The Outside Child'' (1989) *''Family Money'' (1991) *''Humbug'' (1992) *'' The Real Plato Jones'' (1993) *''In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography'' (1994) *''Granny the Pag'' (1995) *''A Nice Change'' (1997) *''Off the Road'' (1998) *''The Ruffian on the Stair'' (2001) *''Dear Austen'' (2005)


See also

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bawden, Nina 1925 births 2012 deaths Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English children's writers English women novelists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners British women children's writers 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers