Ros Barber

Rosalind Barber[1] (born 1964) is an English novelist and poet.[2] She is a university lecturer in English.

Dr

Ros Barber
Born1964
Occupationnovelist, poet, academic
NationalityBritish
Notable workThe Marlowe Papers
Notable awardsDesmond Elliott Prize, Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, Hoffman Prize
Website
rosbarber.com

Academia

Ros Barber is currently a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.[3]

She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex, near Brighton. She also has an Open University BA in English literature and philosophy.[4] She has worked as a computer programmer.[5] Barber has won the Hoffman Prize in 2011, 2014 and 2018.[6][7][1]

Novels

Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers (2012), is written in blank verse. Barber is a Marlovian,[8] and in the book Marlowe's "death" is a ruse and he writes plays under Shakespeare's name. The book won the Desmond Elliott Prize[9] and the Authors' Club First Novel Award.[10] Her second novel, Devotion (2015),[11] was shortlisted for the Encore Award.[12]

She made an appearance at the Brighton Fringe in 2012.[13][14] Her own stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers was performed in 2016.[15]

Poetry

Barber is the author of three volumes of poetry. Material (2008), was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.[12] Its title poem, which also appears in the Faber anthology Poems of the Decade (2015), is in England's school sixth-form syllabus as of 2017.[16]

Bibliography

Novels
  • The Marlowe Papers (2012)
  • Devotion (2015)

Poetry
  • How Things Are On Thursday (2004)
  • Not the Usual Grasses Singing (2005)
  • Material (2008)

Stage
  • The Marlowe Papers (2016)

Non-fiction
  • 30 Second Shakespeare (2015)

References
  1. "The Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Prize winners". The King's School, Canterbury. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Forward Arts. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  3. Goldsmiths page. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  4. Goldsmiths College site. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  5. Masters, Tim (28 June 2013). "Author faced 'hostility' over book". BBC. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  6. "THE MARLOWE PAPERS by Ros Barber | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  7. "Hoffman Prize Winners". The Marlowe Society. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  8. Nicholl, Charles (25 January 2013). "Exiting the Stage". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 October 2019. Dr. Barber is a “Marlovian,” not only in the generic and beneficial sense of being an admirer of Marlowe, but in the more specific and, some will say, more tiresome sense of being a believer in the theory that Marlowe wrote the plays of Shakespeare.
  9. Masters, Tim (27 June 2013). "The Marlowe Papers wins Desmond Elliott Prize". BBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  10. "Ros Barber – The Poetry Society". poetrysociety.org.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  11. Feay, Suzi (19 August 2015). "Devotion by Ros Barber review – the conflict between religion and science". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  12. McLoughlin, Nigel (2016). The Portable Poetry Workshop. Macmillan Publishers. pp. viii. ISBN 978-1-137-60596-2. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  13. Author's page. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  14. Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  15. Staged Marlowe Papers. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  16. "Amendment to GCE AS and A level English Literature, Prescribed texts – Poems of the Decade" (PDF). pearson.com. Pearson. 4 January 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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