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Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa. As a child she had a bout of bronchial pneumonia which damaged the pineal gland and led to fits. It left her with a sleep disorder.〔(The Independent on Sunday, Arts & Books, 16-17, 1 June 2014 )〕 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. Barker's novel ''Darkmans'' won the 2008 Hawthornden Prize. Patrick Ness' Guardian review described the book as "phenomenally good" despite it being a "838-page epic with little describable plot, taking place over just a few days and set in...Ashford" 〔Ness, Patrick: ''Review: Book of the week'' The Guardian 5 May 2007〕 ==Novels== * ''Reversed Forecast'' (1994) * ''Small Holdings'' (1995) * ''Wide Open'' (1998) (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2000) * ''Five Miles from Outer Hope'' (2000) * ''Behindlings'' (2002) * ''Clear: A Transparent Novel'' (2004) * ''Darkmans'' (2007) (Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2007) * ''Burley Cross Postbox Theft'' (2010)〔() The Observer Hot List 2010〕 * ''The Yips'' (2012) (Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2012) * ''In the Approaches'' (2014) * ''The Cauliflower'' (2016) 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「Nicola Barker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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