Nina Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (1925–2012) was an English novelist and children’s writer whose work was shaped by her wartime evacuation to Aberdare, Wales, at the age of 14. Raised in Ilford, Essex, by a teacher mother and a father who served in the Royal Marines. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010, and was one of the few writers both to judge the Booker Prize and be shortlisted for it. She also received the Golden PEN Award. Bawden became known for her sensitive explorations of childhood, displacement, loneliness and resilience.