Nina bowden biography
- Nina Bawden was.
- Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP was an English novelist and children's writer.
- Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists for both adults and young people.
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Carrie’s War was one of the books of my childhood, I think I have carried the memory of that book and the 1970s TV adaptation of it with me ever since. I rediscovered Nina Bawden as an adult, and it was like re-connecting with an old friend. I’ve come to believe that not everyone enjoys Nina Bawden’s writing as much as I do. Naturally – as with many prolific writers – her novels do vary a little in quality. Although I have read only about eight of her twenty adult novels, I have found her to be a writer of great insight and a superb storyteller.
With In My Own Time , Bawden tells her own story – in a series of, frequently very honest – vignettes starting naturally enough with her childhood. I loved every word of this book, and was rather bereft when it was over, not only did I love the stories of Nina Bawden’s life, I realised as I neared the end – that I really liked her.
Nina Bawden was born in 1925 in London, this collection of memoirs opens with memories of her family, aunts, uncles, grandparents and her own parents. Family stories of a ship’s cook, and an old tr
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Nina Bawden facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Nina Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP | |
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Bawden in 2003 | |
| Born | (1925-01-19)19 January 1925 Ilford, Essex, England |
| Died | 22 August 2012(2012-08-22) (aged 87) North London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 1953–2004 |
| Genre | Novels, Children's literature |
| Spouse | Harry Bawden (m. 1946; div. 1954)Austen Kark (m. 1954; died 2002) |
| Children | 3 |
Nina Mary BawdenCBE, 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.
Biography
Nina Bawden was born in 1925 in Ilford, Essex, England as Nina Mary Mabey. She lived in Ilford in "a rather nasty housing estate that [her] 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 the age of fourteen. She spent school holidays at a farm in Shropshire with her mother and br
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Nina Bawden
English novelist and children's writer (1925–2012)
Nina Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP | |
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Bawden in 2003 | |
| Born | (1925-01-19)19 January 1925 Ilford, Essex, England |
| Died | 22 August 2012(2012-08-22) (aged 87) Islington, London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 1953–2004 |
| Genre | Novels, Children's literature |
| Spouse | Harry Bawden (m. 1946; div. 1954)Austen Kark (m. 1954; died 2002) |
| Children | 3 |
Nina Mary BawdenCBE, 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.
Biography
Nina Bawden was born in 1925 in Ilford, Essex, England as Nina Mary Mabey.[1] She lived in Ilford in "a rather nasty housing estate that [her] mother despised".[2] Her mother was a teacher and her father a member of the Royal
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