Dominic Barker
Encyclopedia
Dominic Barker is a British
children's
author
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with a degree in English and then spent two years as part of a comedy double act before deciding to become a teacher. He currently lives in Barcelona.
United Kingdom
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children's
Children's literature
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Author
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Biography
Dominic Barker was born in Southport in 1966. He graduated from the University of BirminghamUniversity of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
with a degree in English and then spent two years as part of a comedy double act before deciding to become a teacher. He currently lives in Barcelona.
Awards and nominations
- 2000 Sharp Stuff shortlisted for the Branford Boase AwardBranford Boase AwardThe Branford Boase Award is a British literary award presented annually to an outstanding novel for young people by a first-time writer.Wendy Boase, Editorial Director of Walker Books and Henrietta Branford worked together previously to produce a great number of books. Both Wendy Boase and...
- 2007 Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the WorldBlart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The Worldbla bla blaBlart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World is a fictional comedy novel by Dominic Barker. It was published in 2006, by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in Great Britain. It tells the tale of Blart, a young boy on a pig farm, who refuses to save the world. The book is largely a...
won the Stockton Children's Book of the Year - 2011 Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Catch a Criminal included in the Richard and Judy's Children's Book Club