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Barbara (Louise) Trapido, born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom, is a British novelist born in South Africa with German, Danish and Dutch ancestry. Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a BA in 1963 before emigrating to London. After many years teaching, she became a full-time writer in 1970.〔(Barbara Trapido )〕 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. It was also longlisted for the Booker prize. At a literary event in Abingdon in March 2008, Barbara read extracts from an as yet unpublished 7th novel.〔(mostly books blog: Abingdon Arts Festival 2008 - First Events )〕 Barbara Trapido lives with her family in Oxford and some of her books have Oxford connections. ==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) *''Sex & Stravinsky'' (2010) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Trapido」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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