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Dr Ros Barber | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, academic |
| Nationality | British |
| Notable work | The Marlowe Papers |
| Notable awards | Desmond Elliott Prize, Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, Hoffman Prize |
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Rosalind Barber [1] (born 1964) is an English novelist, poet and academic. [2]
She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex. She also has an Open University BA in English literature and philosophy. [3]
Barber has worked as a computer programmer. [4]
Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers (2012), is written in blank verse. She subscribes to the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship. [5] [6] In the book, Marlowe's death is a ruse and he writes plays in Shakespeare's name. The book won the Desmond Elliott Prize [7] and the Authors' Club First Novel Award. [8] Her second novel, Devotion (2015), [9] was shortlisted for the Encore Award. [10]
Barber made an appearance at the Brighton Fringe in 2012. [11] [12] She and Nicola Haydn wrote a one-man stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers performed in 2016. [13] [14]
Of Barber's three volumes of poetry, Material (2008) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. [10] Its title poem, which also appears in the Faber anthology Poems of the Decade (2015), was in England's school sixth-form syllabus as of 2017. [15]
As of 2021, Barber lectures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. [16]
She won the Hoffman Prize in 2011, 2014 and 2018. [17] [18] [1]
| Yr | Work | Award | Result | Ref |
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| 2011 | Hoffman Prize | Won | ||
| 2013 | The Marlowe Papers | Authors' Club First Novel Award | Won | |
| Desmond Elliott Prize | Won | |||
| 2014 | Hoffman Prize | Won | ||
| 2018 | Hoffman Prize | Won |
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Dr. Barber is a "Marlovian" not only in the generic and beneficial sense of being an admirer of Marlowe, but in the more specific and, some will say, more tiresome sense of being a believer in the theory that Marlowe wrote the plays of Shakespeare.
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