Barbara Trapido

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Barbara Trapido, born 1941, is a British novelist. Born in Cape Town and grew up in Durban, South Africa, Trapido emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. After many years teaching she became a full time writer.

Trapido has published six novels, three of which have been nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Her semi-autobiographical Frankie & Stankie, one of those shortlisted, which deals with growing up white under apartheid, gained a great deal of critical attention, most of it favourable.

Barbara Trapido lives with her family in Oxford and some of her books have Oxford connections.

[edit] Bibliography

• Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982)
• Noah's Ark (1984)
• Temples of Delight (1990)
• Juggling (1994)
• The Travelling Hornplayer (1998)
• Frankie & Stankie (2003)

[edit] Reviews

• Frankie & Stankie, Observer newspaper
• Frankie & Stankie, Telegraph newspaper

[edit] External links

• Barbara Trapido: Biography and critical perspective from the British Council.
• "The awkward squad". Trapido writes about the process of creating a novel in The Guardian newspaper.