Susan Barker (born 1978) is a British novelist.

Personal life

She has an English father and a Chinese-Malaysian mother and grew up in East London. She studied at Leeds University and undertook the graduate writing programme at Manchester University. She writes primarily about Asia.

Susan Barker

Career

Barker is the author of three novels: Sayonara Bar, which Time called "a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist", and The Orientalist and the Ghost, both published by Doubleday and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Susan Barker

Her third novel The Incarnations is a 'stunning tale of a modern Beijing taxi driver being pursued by his soulmate across a thousand years of Chinese history' and was published by Doubleday in 2014.

Susan Barker

Bibliography

Sayonara Bar, 2005

The Orientalist and the Ghost, 2008

The Incarnations, 2014

References

External links

Author's website

Interview with 3:AM

Interview with Authortrek

British Council profile

1978 births

Living people

British women novelists

21st-century British novelists

21st-century British women writers

People associated with Leeds Trinity University

English people of Chinese descent

English people of Malaysian descent