Barbara Trapido

Barbara Trapidois an internationally successful author, renowned for her dark satirical comedies. She has writtena number ofnovels, includingBrother of the More Famous Jack(1982), which won the Whitbread Special Prize for Fiction,Temples of Delight(1990), shortlisted for theSunday ExpressBook of the Year Award,Juggling(1994), andFrankie & Stankie(2003). In its mix of people from different spheres,Sex and Stravinsky, published by Bloomsbury in May 2010, throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.