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Barbara Trapido

South Africa (b.1941)

Barbara Trapido was born in South Africa and is the author of five novels - BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), NOAH'S ARK, TEMPLES OF DELIGHT (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), JUGGLING and THE TRAVELING HORNPLAYER (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award). She lives in Oxford.

Series

Brother
   1. Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982)
   2. Noah's Ark (1984)
   3. The Travelling Horn Player (1998)

Temples and Juggling
1. Temples of Delight (1990)
2. Juggling (1994)

Novels

Frankie and Stankie (2003)
Sex and Stravinsky (2010)

Books containing stories by Barbara Trapido

Picador New Writing: Vol 10 (2001)
(Picador New Writing)
edited by
Penelope Lively and George Szirtes

Award nominations

	2003 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : Frankie and Stankie
	2003 Booker Prize (longlist) : Frankie and Stankie
	1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : The Travelling Horn Player

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Sophie, Standing There (2026)
Meg Mason
"It's raw, it's massively sad; it's hilariously funny and so epigrammatic that after writing down the novel's pithily astute phrases, I realised I was almost writing out the whole book."

I Couldn't Love You More (2021)
Esther Freud
"I Couldn't Love You More is completely, inspiringly wonderful. I read it non-stop through the night, finding myself simultaneously uplifted and wrung out by the emotional power of the story and by its ambitious social and historical range. It couldn't be better."

Hinterland (2011)
Caroline Brothers
"Heart-wrenching... a story that all of us should read."

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