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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.
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 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, The...
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 · A consistently excellent novelist who always wrote with quick intelligence as well as emotional honesty, Nina Bawden produced over 40 novels for large audiences of both adults and children in a...
Nina Bawden was the author of more than 50 books for adults and children and was perhaps best known for her children’s novel Carrie’s War (1973), a story of wartime child evacuees.
Aug 22, 2012 · LONDON (Reuters) - British author Nina Bawden, who wrote novels for adults and children and was shortlisted for the coveted Booker Prize in 1987 for "Circles of Deceit", died on Wednesday. She...
