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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.
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.
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]
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