Elspeth Barker
Elspeth Barker (1940-2022) was a novelist and journalist. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her first husband was the poet George Barker by whom she had five children, including the novelist Raffaella Barker.[1] In 2007 she married the writer Bill Troop.[2]
Barker was educated in Scotland at St Leonards School and at Somerville College, Oxford. Her novel O Caledonia[3] won four awards and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. She reviewed extensively and wrote features for many publications including Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Harpers & Queen and Scotland on Sunday. She edited the anthology Loss for Dent/Orion in 1997. From 1992 to 2010 she worked as tutor and lecturer in creative writing at Norwich School of Art and Design (MA and BA), and has tutored on over a dozen Arvon courses as well as other writing courses in the UK, Europe, and US.
She published short stories in numerous anthologies and was visiting professor of fiction at Kansas University in 1999. She read and lectured at festivals and universities around the world. For three years she was a judge for the McKitterick and Sagittarius prizes.
Elspeth Barker died in April 2022.
References
- ^ Fraser, Robert (2001). The Chameleon Poet, A Life of George Barker. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06242-5.
- ^ Evening Standard, 21 December 2007, p. 15.
- ^ Barker, Elsbeth (1995). O Caledonia. Random House Value Publishing. ISBN 978-0-517-15580-6.
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