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Nina Bawden (born January 19, 1925, London) is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.

When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, South Wales during term time.

Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Her novels include Carrie's War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch's Daughter. A number of her works have been dramatised by BBC Children's television, and many have been translated into various languages. In 2002 she was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, and her husband Austen Kark was killed.

She currently lives in London and Nauplion, Greece.

• The Secret Passage (1963)
• Tortoise By Candlelight (1963)
• The House of Secrets (1963)
• On the Run (1964)
• Under the Skin (1964)
• The White Horse Gang (1966)
• The Witch's Daughter (1966)
• A Handful of Thieves (1967)
• A Woman of My Age (1967)
• The Grain of Truth (1968)
• Three on the Run (1968)
• The Runaway Summer (1969)
• The Birds on the Trees (1970)
• Squib (1971)
• Devil by the Sea (1972)
• Carrie's War (1973)
• George Beneath a Paper Moon (1974)
• The Peppermint Pig (1975)
• Afternoon of a Good Woman (1976)
• Solitary Child (1976)
• Rebel on a Rock (1978)
• Familiar Passions (1979)
• The Robbers (1979)
• Walking Naked (1981)
• William Tell (1981)
• Kept in the Dark (1982)
• The Ice House (1983)
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1983)
• The Finding (1985)
• On the Edge (1985)
• Princess Alice (1985)
• Circles of Deceit (1987)
• Henry (1988)
• Keeping Henry (1988)
• The Outside Child (1989)
• Humbug (1992)
• The Real Plato Jones (1993)
• In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography (1994)
• Anna Apparent (1995)
• Granny the Pag (1995)
• A Nice Change (1997)
• Off the Road (1998)
• Someone at a Distance (1999)
• The Ruffian on the Stair (2001)
• Dear Austen (2006)

• 1976 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize — The Peppermint Pig
• 1995 Shortlisted for the W H Smith Mind Boggling Books Award — The Real Plato Jones
• 1996 Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal — Granny the Pag
• 1993 Phoenix Award for Carrie's War

• Nina Bawden and her works