Barbara Taylor Bradford

**Barbara Taylor Bradford** OBE (10 ga Mayu 1933 - 24 Nuwamba 2024) marubuciya ce 'yar asalin Amurka wacce ta fi sayarwa a Birtaniya . An buga littafinta na farko mai suna *A Woman of Substance* a shekarar 1979 kuma an sayar da shi sama da 30.&nbsp;Kwafi miliyan a duk duniya.  Ta rubuta littattafai 40, galibi game da mata matasa masu fara'a waɗanda suka tashi daga aiki tuƙuru a kasuwanci. An fassara littattafanta zuwa harsuna 40 kuma an sayar da kwafi sama da miliyan 90; an kuma daidaita littattafanta goma a matsayin shirye-shiryen talabijin da fina-finan talabijin. Nasarar da ta samu a harkokin kasuwanci ta tara dukiya mai yawa kuma an ba ta digirin girmamawa da dama kuma an naɗa ta a matsayin Jami'in Daular Burtaniya (OBE) saboda gudummawar da ta bayar a fannin adabi.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Barbara Taylor a ranar 10 ga Mayu, 1933 a Armley, Leeds, ga Freda da Winston Taylor.   Mahaifinta injiniya ne wanda ya rasa ƙafarsa ɗaya yayin da yake hidima a Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya.  Ta halarci Makarantar Firamare ta Christ Church Upper Armley CofE a unguwar Leeds da ke Upper Armley tare da marubuci Alan Bennett .  Tun tana ƙarama a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ta gudanar da wani gagarumin ciniki a makarantarta kuma ta ba da gudummawar kuɗin fam 2 ga asusun "Taimako ga Rasha". Daga baya ta sami wasiƙar godiya da aka rubuta da hannu daga Clementine Churchill, matar Firayim Minista Winston Churchill .  Taylor ta bar makaranta tana da shekaru 16. 

Babban ɗan'uwanta Vivian ya mutu sakamakon ciwon sankarau kafin a haife ta. Daga baya ta bayyana mahaifiyarta a matsayin wacce ta "sa duk wata ƙaunarta mai cike da takaici a cikina".  Auren iyayenta an ƙirƙira shi a cikin littafinta na 1986 *mai suna An Act of Will* . 

A lokacin ƙuruciyarta, Barbara Taylor ta karanta Charles Dickens, ' yan'uwan Brontë, Thomas Hardy, da Colette . [1] Tana da shekaru goma, ta yanke shawarar zama marubuciya bayan ta aika da labari zuwa ga mujalla. An biya ta kuɗin sati 7 da rabi na labarin, wanda ta sayi zanin hannu da kuma gilashin fure mai kore ga iyayenta.

Marubucin tarihin rayuwarta, Piers Dudgeon, daga baya ya gano shaidar cewa mahaifiyarta Freda Walker 'yar Oliver Robinson ce ta bazata, Marquess na 2 na Ripon, wani mai filaye na Yorkshire wanda ya ɗauki kakar marubucin, Edith Walker, aiki a matsayin bawa. Dudgeon ya sanar da Taylor Bradford cewa kakarta da Ripon sun haifi 'ya'ya uku tare. Bayan ɗan jinkiri, Taylor Bradford ya ba Dudgeon damar buga wannan bayanin a cikin tarihin rayuwarsa.  Kodayake da farko ta fusata da gano Dudgeon, daga baya ta ce "Na zo. Babu wata kunya yanzu."  Daga baya kakarta ta yi lokaci a gidajen aiki,  wanda Taylor Bradford ta bincika a cikin shirin talabijin na ITV *Secrets of the Workhouse* (2013). 

## Sana'a
Bayan ta yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a wurin buga littattafai na jaridar, Taylor ta zama 'yar jarida ga jaridar *Yorkshire Evening Post* . A lokacin da take can, ta yi aiki tare da Keith Waterhouse .  A lokacin da take da shekaru 20, Taylor ta ƙaura zuwa Landan, inda daga baya ta zama editan salon zamani na mujallar  kuma marubuciya a *jaridar London Evening News* . Ta ci gaba da rubuta wani shafi na kayan ado na ciki wanda aka samar wa jaridu 183. 

Aikinta na farko na rubuta almara shine littattafai guda huɗu masu ban sha'awa, wani nau'in da ta yi watsi da shi daga baya.  Bradford daga baya za ta bayyana "yin hira da kanta", tana cewa "Ina cikin ƙarshen shekaruna talatin. Na yi tunani: me zai faru idan na kai shekara 55, kuma ban taɓa rubuta wani labari ba? Zan tsani kaina. Zan zama ɗaya daga cikin waɗannan marubuta masu ɗaci, waɗanda ba su cika ba."  Littafinta na farko, *A Woman of Substance* (1979), ya zama mafi kyawun siyarwa kuma, a cewar Reuters, ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin manyan littattafan goma mafi sayarwa a kowane lokaci.  Bradford ta ɗauki masanin tarihi kuma marubuci ɗan ƙasar Ireland Cornelius Ryan a matsayin mai ba ta shawara kan adabi. Ryan ya ƙarfafa mata rubutu kuma shine mutum na farko (ban da mahaifiyarta) wanda ta sanar da burinta na adabi.  Marubutan da ta fi so a zamanin yau sune PD James, Bernard Cornwell, da Ruth Rendell . 

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