1. Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP was an English novelist and children's writer.
15 Facts About Nina Bawden
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Nina Bawden was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.
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Nina Bawden was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
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Nina Bawden was born in 1925 in Ilford, Essex, England as Nina Mary Mabey.
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Nina Bawden lived in Ilford in "a rather nasty housing estate that [her] mother despised".
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Nina Bawden's mother was a teacher and her father a member of the Royal Marines.
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Nina Bawden was evacuated during the Second World War to Aberdare, Wales, at the age of fourteen.
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Nina Bawden spent school holidays at a farm in Shropshire with her mother and brothers.
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Nina Bawden was educated at Ilford County High School for Girls, and then attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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In 1954 Nina married Austen Kark, a reporter who eventually became managing director of the BBC World Service.
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Nina Bawden had two stepdaughters: Cathy, who lives in New Zealand, and Teresa, who lives in London.
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In 2002 Nina Bawden was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, in which her husband was killed.
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Nina Bawden died at her home in Islington, London, on 22 August 2012.
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Nina Bawden's novels include On the Run, The Witch's Daughter, The Birds on the Trees, Carrie's War, and The Peppermint Pig.
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In 2010, Nina Bawden made the shortlist for the Lost Man Booker Prize with her novel The Birds on the Trees.