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    Nina Bawden

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    Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. ↗


    — Nina Bawden

    #both #college #grammar #grammar school #margaret

    One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. ↗


    — Nina Bawden

    #based #forgotten #good #good reason #happened

    People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. ↗


    — Nina Bawden

    #education #how #i #important #know

    People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that. ↗


    — Nina Bawden

    #get #lives #people #railways #remember

    There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general. ↗


    — Nina Bawden

    #children #died #family #general #husband






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    1987 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize – Circles of Deceit
    1995 Shortlisted for the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award – The Real Plato Jones
    1996 Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal – Granny the Pag


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    See also

    List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction


    Notes. In 2002 Bawden was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash in which her husband Austen Kark was killed. Her mother was a teacher and her father a member of the Royal Marines.

    She is one of a select group to have both served as a Booker judge and made the shortlist as an author. Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was a British novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.

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