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Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
Nina Bawden, who has died aged 87, came into the world with a gift for storytelling. As a child of five, she insisted that she would draw only pictures of "stories" – the results won commendation...
Nina Bawden was a prolific and acclaimed author of adult and children's books, including Carrie's War and Circles of Deceit. She was also a Booker Prize judge and a shortlisted author, and survived a fatal rail crash in 2002.
Aug 23, 2012 · Nina Bawden, a writer for children and adults whose work included books born of personal tragedy, died on Wednesday at her home in London. She was 87. Her son, Robert, announced the death,...
Aug 22, 2012 · Nina Bawden was a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, Wales, during term time.
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Aug 23, 2012 · Nina Bawden was a prolific and acclaimed novelist for children and adults, who wrote about childhood, family and war. She was also a victim of the Potters Bar train crash in 2002, which inspired her book Dear Austen.
Aug 22, 2012 · Nina Bawden, politicised by her time as an evacuee in working class Wales, had joined the University Labour Club, and was shocked that Margaret Roberts had joined the Conservatives.
