Susan Barker

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Susan Barker
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Barker at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born1978 (age 46–47)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Leeds University; Manchester University
Period2005–present
Website
susanbarker.co.uk

Susan Barker (born 1978) is a British novelist.

Personal life

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.

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Career

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

References

  1. ↑ British Council Archived 14 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Morrison, Donald (6 March 2005). "Sayonara, Tsunami Bar". Time. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  3. ↑ Richardson, Anna (15 July 2008). "Dylan Thomas Prize picks 14". The Bookseller . Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Farrington, Joshua (28 January 2014). "Transworld signs novel spanning China's history". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 July 2024.


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