Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker is the author of twelve novels – including Wide Open, Darkmans, The Yips and In the Approaches – and two short story collections. She has been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. Her novel H(A)PPY won the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize. Her most recent novel is titled I Am Sovereign.
Nicola Barker on Granta.com
Fiction | Issue 164
TonyInterruptor
Nicola Barker
‘Insofar as value for money is relevant to art, that audience – an attentive audience, a great audience – were determined to get it.’
Fiction by Nicola Barker.
Fiction | Issue 164
Go, Local Sports Team, Go!
Nicola Barker
‘This is his Toxic Super-Ego at work. Surely?’
In Conversation | Issue 164
Nicola Barker | Interview
Nicola Barker & Yuka Igarashi
‘I’ve always thought of myself as someone who writes outside of the dominant culture; an outsider looking in.’
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The Balance
Nicola Barker
‘There were five of them remaining and it was all in the balance.’