Barbara (Louise) Trapido, amụrụ ya na 1941 dị ka Barbara Schuddeboom, bụ onye edemede Britain amụrụ na South Africa nke sitere na German, Danish na Dutch . Amụrụ na Cape Town wee tolite na Durban ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Natal wee nweta BA N'afọ 1963 tupu ọ kwaga London. Mgbe ọtụtụ afọ kụzichara ihe, ọ ghọrọ onye ode akwụkwọ oge niile n'afọ 1970. Trapido ebipụtala akwụkwọ akụkọ asaa, atọ n'ime ha ahọpụtara maka ihe nrite Whitbread . Ya ọkara autobiographical Frankie & Stankie, otu n'ime ndị a depụtara aha, nke na-emekọ ihe na-eto eto na-acha ọcha n'okpuru ịkpa ókè agbụrụ, nwetara nnukwu nlebara anya dị oke egwu, ọtụtụ n'ime ya dị mma. Edekwara ya ogologo oge maka ihe nrite Booker. Barbara Trapido na ezinụlọ ya bi na Oxford na ụfọdụ akwụkwọ ya nwere njikọ Oxford. Nwanna Jack a ma ama (1982) Igbe Noa (1984) Templelọ nsọ nke obi ụtọ (1990) Ịgba (1994) Igwe na-eme njem (1998) Frankie & Stankie (2003) Mmekọahụ & Stravinsky (2010) Frankie & Stankie, akwụkwọ akụkọ Observer Frankie & Stankie, akwụkwọ akụkọ Telegraph Mmekọahụ & Stravinsky, akwụkwọ akụkọ Independent Barbara Trapido: akụkọ ndụ na echiche dị egwu sitere na British Council .