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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden

By Catrin Edwards!

Quiz

All About Nina Bawden

1. What was the name of the college that Nina attended?

5. Where did Nina Bawden move to later on in her life?

• Nina Bawden was born on January 19th in Essex, London in the year of 1925.
• Her Job was an Author of Children and Adult books.
• She grew up in London and moved to Greece later on in her life.
• Her first book for children was The Secret Passage which was written in 1963.
• Unfortunately Nina died on the 22nd of August 2012 at the age of 87.

Somerville College

Greece

2. What year did Nina Bawden write Carrie's War?

6. When did Nina die?

1973

22nd of August 2012

3. What was the name of her first book for children?

7. What did Nina study in college?

The Secret Passage

Philosophy, Politics, Economics

The books

9. What was Nina originally planning to

be when she grew up?

8. How many of Ninas books did I mention?

4. When and where was Nina Born?

Explorer or Journalist

Four

19th of January 1925, in Essex

Nina Bawden wrote books for Children and Adults. She remembered her childhood very clearly so she got inspired to write novels that were similar to her life as a child or as a grown-up. Carrie's War was inspired by her evacuation and War Time life. She was also an evacuee when she was a child and moved to Wales from London, just like her book 'Carrie's War'. Nina continued to write both for adults and children over the years. Many of her children's books have been filmed, or adapted for television and all have been widely translated into many languages including Russian, Chinese and Japanese. With over a thousand copies of her books Worldwide, Nina was one famous and popular Author

Here are some pictures of Nina Bawden:

The Runaway Summer (1969)

Carrie's War (1973)

Keeping Henry (1988)

The Peppermint Pig

(1975)

Education

• Nina Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford.
• There she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
• She always liked writing and came top of the class in English.
• She wrote her first book for Adults after gaining a degree.
• She always received A*, A+, A, and B's in English.

DID YOU KNOW??!!

1. Nina Bawdens husband died in a Potters Bar Rail crash. She was also badly injured from the crash so she wrote a book about her experience of the incident.

2. Nina Bawden never planned on being an author, it just happened. She always wanted to be an explorer and a Journalist although she always thought she was a writer in school.

3. Nina Bawden was a Widow and at the age of 78 she became diagnosed and suffered with dementia.

4. The death of her eldest son, Nicholas ("Niki"), aged 33, in 1981 was the other tragic loss of Bawden's life. He committed suicide after suffering from heart disease.

5. She won over 15 awards

Thank you for watching and listening to my presentation on Nina Bawden

I hope you enjoyed!! :)

Fun facts

Are there any questions??I'd be happy to answer them!

• Nina Bawden was one of the few novelists who was equally successful in writing both for adults and for children
• She wrote over 50 books
• Nina Bawden was a curious child that always wanted to know what the grownups were up to.
• The horrible and mean characters in her novels were similar to the people who she disliked in real life so she always wanted revenge on them.
• She had two sons: Nicholas and Robert by Harry Bawden, one daughter: Perdita by Austen Kark and two stepdaughters, Teresa and Cathy.
• Her novel 'Carrie's War' won the award for best Childrens Novel in 1974

Thank you