Elspeth Barker

In her career as a novelist and journalist, Elspeth Barker wrote for The Independent , The Observer (London), The Sunday Times (London), London Review of Books , and many others. Elspeth also taught Latin at what she described as a naughty girls' school on the Norfolk coast and worked as a tutor and lecturer in creative writing at the Norwich School of Art and Design. She published her first novel, O Caledonia , at the age of fifty-one. O Caledonia was awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize...See more

In her career as a novelist and journalist, Elspeth Barker wrote for The Independent , The Observer (London), The Sunday Times (London), London Review of Books , and many others. Elspeth also taught Latin at what she described as a naughty girls' school on the Norfolk coast and worked as a tutor and lecturer in creative writing at the Norwich School of Art and Design. She published her first novel, O Caledonia , at the age of fifty-one. O Caledonia was awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Elspeth was married to the poet George Barker and she died in 2022. See less