Английская Википедия:Barbara Trapido
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Barbara (Louise) Trapido (born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom), is a British novelist born in South Africa with German, Danish and Dutch ancestry.[1] Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a BA in 1963 before emigrating to London. After many years teaching, she became a full-time writer in 1970.[2]
Trapido has published seven novels, three of which have been nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Her semi-autobiographical Frankie & Stankie, one of those shortlisted, which deals with growing up white under apartheid, gained a great deal of critical attention, most of it favourable. It was also longlisted for the Booker prize.
Barbara Trapido lives with her family in Oxford and some of her books have Oxford connections.
Bibliography
- Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982)
- Noah's Ark (1984)
- Temples of Delight (1990)
- Juggling (1994)
- The Travelling Hornplayer (1998)
- Frankie & Stankie (2003)
- Sex & Stravinsky (2010)
Reviews
- Frankie & Stankie, Observer newspaper
- Frankie & Stankie, Telegraph newspaper
- Sex & Stravinsky, The Independent newspaper
External links
- Barbara Trapido: Biography and critical perspective from the British Council.
- "The awkward squad". Trapido writes in The Guardian newspaper about the process of creating a novel.
References
- Английская Википедия
- 1941 births
- Living people
- Writers from Cape Town
- 20th-century British novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- South African women novelists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Writers from Oxford
- University of Natal alumni
- British people of German descent
- South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
- British people of Danish descent
- British people of Dutch descent
- 21st-century British women writers
- 20th-century British women writers
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