Susan Barker
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Susan Barker | |
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 Barker at the 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Leeds University; Manchester University |
| Period | 2005–present |
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Susan Barker (born 1978) is a British novelist.
Personal life
[edit]Barker has an English father and a Chinese-Malaysian mother and grew up in East London. She studied at Leeds University and undertook the graduate writing programme at Manchester University.[1] She writes primarily about Asia.
Career
[edit]Barker is the author of three novels: Sayonara Bar, which Time magazine called "a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist",[2] and The Orientalist and the Ghost, both published by Doubleday and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.[3]
Her third novel The Incarnations is a "stunning tale of a modern Beijing taxi driver being pursued by his soulmate across a thousand years of Chinese history" and was published by Doubleday in 2014.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Sayonara Bar, 2005
- The Orientalist and the Ghost, 2008
- The Incarnations, 2014
References
[edit]- ^ British Council Archived 14 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morrison, Donald (6 March 2005). "Sayonara, Tsunami Bar". Time. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Richardson, Anna (15 July 2008). "Dylan Thomas Prize picks 14". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Farrington, Joshua (28 January 2014). "Transworld signs novel spanning China's history". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
External links
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