Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP was an English novelist and childrens writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She is one of a select group to have both served as a Booker judge and made the shortlist as an author.

Bawden was born in 1925 and raised in Ilford, Essex, in a rather nasty housing estate that mother 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 age fourteen. She spent school holidays at a farm in Shropshire with her mother and her brothers.

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