Nina Bawden (born January 19, 1925, London) is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A Marine is an elite warrior whose primary function is to serve aboard a ship and/or assault the land from the sea in amphibious warfare. ...

When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, South Wales during term time. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Shropshire (pronounced /ˈʃrɒpʃɪər, -ʃər/), alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated Shrops, is a county in the West Midlands of England. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Approximate extent of South East Wales. ...

Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Full name Somerville College Motto Donec rursus impleat orbem Named after Mary Somerville Previous Names Somerville Hall Established 1879 Sister College Girton College Principal Dame Fiona Caldicott JCR President Simon Bruegger MCR President Allen Middlebro Location Woodstock Road, Oxford Undergraduates 396 Graduates 88 Homepage Boat Club Somerville College is one... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is a popular interdisciplinary degree which combines study from the three eponymous disciplines. ...

Her novels include Carrie's War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch's Daughter. A number of her works have been dramatised by BBC Children's television, and many have been translated into various languages. In 2002 she was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, and her husband Austen Kark was killed. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... The Potters Bar rail crash occurred on May 10, 2002 at Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire just north of Greater London, when a northbound train derailed at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven. ... Austen Kark (20 October 1926–10 May 2002) was a managing director of the BBC World Service. ...

She currently lives in London and Nauplion, Greece. Náfplio (Ναύπλιον) is a town on the Peloponnese in Greece. ...

Bibliography

• The Secret Passage (1963)
• Tortoise By Candlelight (1963)
• The House of Secrets (1963)
• On the Run (1964)
• Under the Skin (1964)
• The White Horse Gang (1966)
• The Witch's Daughter (1966)
• A Handful of Thieves (1967)
• A Woman of My Age (1967)
• The Grain of Truth (1968)
• Three on the Run (1968)
• The Runaway Summer (1969)
• The Birds on the Trees (1970)
• Squib (1971)
• Devil by the Sea (1972)
• Carrie's War (1973)
• George Beneath a Paper Moon (1974)
• The Peppermint Pig (1975)
• Afternoon of a Good Woman (1976)
• Solitary Child (1976)
• Rebel on a Rock (1978)
• Familiar Passions (1979)
• The Robbers (1979)
• Walking Naked (1981)
• William Tell (1981)
• Kept in the Dark (1982)
• The Ice House (1983)
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1983)
• The Finding (1985)
• On the Edge (1985)
• Princess Alice (1985)
• Circles of Deceit (1987)
• Henry (1988)
• Keeping Henry (1988)
• The Outside Child (1989)
• Humbug (1992)
• The Real Plato Jones (1993)
• In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography (1994)
• Anna Apparent (1995)
• Granny the Pag (1995)
• A Nice Change (1997)
• Off the Road (1998)
• Someone at a Distance (1999)
• The Ruffian on the Stair (2001)
• Dear Austen (2006)

On the Run (1964) is a childrens novel by British author, Nina Bawden. ... Under the Skin (2000) is a novel by Michel Faber. ... The second book in R.A. Salvatores book series, Chronicles of Ynis Aielle ... The Birds on the Trees is a novel by Nina Bawden first published in 1970 about a middle-class English family whose 19 year-old son does not live up to his parents expectations. ... Carries War is a 1973 book by Nina Bawden about the experiences of a girl named Carrie and her brother Nick, who are evacuated to Wales during World War II. Carrie had often dreamed about coming back. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Prizes and awards

• 1976 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize — The Peppermint Pig
• 1995 Shortlisted for the W H Smith Mind Boggling Books Award — The Real Plato Jones
• 1996 Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal — Granny the Pag
• 1993 Phoenix Award for Carrie's War

The Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of childrens literature by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the UK during the preceding year. ... The Carnegie Medal in Literature was established in the UK in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ... The Phoenix Award is awarded annually to a book originally published in English twenty years previously which did not receive a major award at the time of its publication. ...

External link

• Nina Bawden and her works