Nicola Barker
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| Born | March 30, 1966 Ely, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality |  United Kingdom |
| Writing period | 1994-present |
Nicola Barker (born March 30, 1966, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English novelist and short story writer.
Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island. Her 2004 novel, Clear, is set in London during David Blaine's Above the Below 44 day fast in London in 2003.
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[edit] Novels
- Reversed Forecast (1994)
- Small Holdings (1995)
- Wide Open (1998) (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award award, 2000)
- Five Miles from Outer Hope (2000)
- Behindlings (2002)
- Clear: A Transparent Novel (2004)
- Darkmans (2007) (Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2007)
[edit] Collections of stories
[edit] Quotation
'There are writers who exist to confirm people's feelings about themselves and to make them feel comforted or not alone. That's the opposite to what I do. I'm presenting people with unacceptable or hostile characters, and my desire is to make them understood.' (Interview in The Observer 29 April 2007 [1])
