Susan Barker
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Susan Barker | |
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 Barker at the 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1978 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 2005–present |
Susan Barker (born 1978) is a British novelist.
Personal life[edit]
She 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.
Career[edit]
Barker is the author of three novels: Sayonara Bar, which Time 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[edit]
- Sayonara Bar, 2005
- The Orientalist and the Ghost, 2008
- The Incarnations, 2014
References[edit]
- ^ British Council Archived 14 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Time (magazine) review
- ^ ""Dylan Thomas Prize picks 14", The Bookseller". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ ""Transworld signs novel spanning China's history", The Bookseller". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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