Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker ( born March 30, 1966 in Ely, Cambridgeshire) is a British writer, who was honored for her books among others, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Hawthornden Prize.
Life
Nicola Barker, who had spent part of her childhood in South Africa, returned in 1980 with her family to England and studied after their education at King's College, University of Cambridge.
Her literary debut was in 1993 with Love Your Enemies, a collection of black - humorous and surreal short stories, for which they both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award from the British PEN obtained. For the short story collection Heading Inland (1996 ) she was awarded the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize of the Sunday newspaper The Mail on Sunday.
For her novel Wide Open (1998), the story of two brothers who deal with their past, Nicola Barker received in 2000 the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. This novel was followed by, among others, Five Miles from Outer Hope ( 2000) about a teenage girl who lives on a small island off the coast of Devon, and in 2004 Clear, which was inspired by the glass box in which the magician David Blaine 44 days without food lived across the River Thames near Tower Bridge.
2007 she released her novel Dark Mans, not only the 2008 Hawthornden Prize was awarded, but also for the Booker Prize in 2007 and was the Ondaatje Prize nominated. The novel is about the court jester and biographer of the English king Edward IV Last appeared in 2010 the comic epistolary novel Burley Cross Postox Theft.
Other works
- Reversed Forecast, 1994
- Small Holdings, 1995
- Behind Lings, 2002
- The Three Button Trick: Selected Stories, 2003
- Small ratios, original title Small Holdings, 1997, ISBN 3-518-40865-8
- Wide Open, original title Wide Open, 1999, ISBN 3-518-41045-8
- Needles in the ear, original title Five Miles from Outer Hope, 2002, ISBN 3-518-41318- X