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Susan Barker | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Leeds University; Manchester University |
| Period | 2005–present |
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Susan Barker (born 1978) is a British Malaysian novelist. She has written four novels, all dealing with Asian themes, and is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. [1]
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. [2] She writes primarily about Asia.
Barker is the author of four novels: Sayonara Bar, which Time magazine called "a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist", [3] and The Orientalist and the Ghost, both published by Doubleday and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. [4]
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. [5] It won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize in 2015. [6]
Her fourth novel Old Soul was published in 2025 by Penguin Fig Tree. An excerpt won a Northern Writers Award for Fiction in 2020. [7]
Barker is also a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. [1]
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