WRITER

Nina Bawden

1925 - 2012

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Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nina Bawden has received more than 141,706 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Nina Bawden is the 6,770th most popular writer (down from 6,057th in 2019), the 6,246th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,654th in 2019) and the 704th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The birds on the trees
Middle class, Family, Fiction
1970
The grain of truth
Emma and Henry Lingard and Holly and Felix Craven are neighbors, old friends, durably wedded. Each thinks he understands the other well; better, perhaps, than he understands himself. All except Emma. She cries for help out of her private nightmares, but no one listens. Her recourse is a fantasy life written out in unsent letters. Then a series of crises shatters the tenuous balance of Emma's life and the routine of their days...
1968
Carrie's war
Fiction
'I did a dreadful thing, the worst thing of my life, when I was twelve and a half years old, and nothing can change it' It is wartime and Carrie and her little brother Nick have been evacuated from their London home to the Welsh hills. In an unfamiliar place, among strangers, the children feel alone and find little comfort with the family they are billeted with: Mr Evans, a bullying shopkeeper and Auntie Lou, his kind but timid sister. When Carrie and Nick visit Albert, another evacuee, they are welcomed into Hepzibah Green's warm kitchen. Hepzibah is rumoured to be a witch, but her cooking is delicious, her stories are enthralling and the children cannot keep away. With Albert, Hepzibah and Mister Johnny, they begin to settle into their new surroundings. But before long, their loyalties are tested: will they be persuaded to betray their new friends?
1973
The Ice-House
Fiction, Friendship
1980
Squib
Juvenile fiction, Friendship
A twelve-year-old girl and her friends try to discover the true identity of the small boy who seems to have no name.
1971
A Little Love, a Little Learning
Fiction, Sisters
1940

Page views of Nina Bawdens by language

Over the past year Nina Bawden has had the most page views in the with 14,214 views, followed by Russian (976), and German (805). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (60.62%), Swedish (48.64%), and Southern Azerbaijani (31.35%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nina Bawden ranks 6,770 out of 7,302. Before her are Sharon Olds, Miro Gavran, Michael Davitt, Leena Lehtolainen, Charley Boorman, and Ed Greenwood. After her are Abdellah Taïa, Carol Ann Duffy, Claire Keegan, Maja Lunde, Stevie Smith, and Claudio Rodriguez Fer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Nina Bawden ranks 531. Before her are Ebrahim Alkazi, Jerry Paris, Keshav Dutt, Johnny Horton, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, and Peter Hirsch. After her are Bill Dixon, Bob Hastings, Alastair McCorquodale, Russell Hoban, Jay Chamberlain, and William Steinkraus. Among people deceased in 2012, Nina Bawden ranks 494. Before her are Thomas Kinkade, Michael Dokes, Eduard Ivanov, Miguel Calero, Dave Sexton, and Keith Gardner. After her are Chuck Share, Al Freeman Jr., Kenny Rollins, Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, Anthony Bevilacqua, and Jonathan Frid.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nina Bawden ranks 6,246 out of 8,785. Before her are Colin Todd (1948), Rachel Hurd-Wood (1990), Thomas Sopwith (1888), Charley Boorman (1966), Raquel Cassidy (1968), and Michael Fallon (1952). After her are Aaron Ramsdale (1998), Mark E. Smith (1957), Adam Curtis (1955), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), Amanda Abbington (1974), and Steve Jones (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Nina Bawden ranks 704. Before her are Alison Weir (1951), Jane Taylor (1783), Maggie O'Farrell (1972), George Etherege (1635), Stanley Middleton (1919), and Charley Boorman (1966). After her are Carol Ann Duffy (1955), Stevie Smith (1902), Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981), Russell T Davies (1963), Noel Streatfeild (1895), and Sebastian Faulks (1953).

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