Nicola Barker is the author of eleven novels, including The Yips (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize), Darkmans (short-listed for the Booker and the Ondaatje Prize and winner of the Hawthornden Prize), Clear (long-listed for the Booker), and Wide Open (winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), and three story collections, including Love Your Enemies (winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award). Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in London.
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