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Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is a British writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery.
Biography. Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics, where she read International History, and at Durham University. She taught History and Politics until 1982.
Oct 18, 2021 · Celebrated for her First World War trilogy, Barker has been reimagining the Trojan War through the eyes of its female victims. But what happens when gritty realism meets myth? By Daniel...
Aug 30, 2018 · With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations.
Pat Barker, CBE, FRSL was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics.
Pat Barker won the Man Booker Prize in 1995 for 'The Ghost Road'. She was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her 40s, after taking a short writing course taught by Angela Carter.
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road.
Pat Barker has 30 books on Goodreads with 530193 ratings. Pat Barker’s most popular book is The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1).
Pat Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow Your House Down, Liza’s England, The Man Who Wasn’t There, the Regeneration trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize), Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, and the Life Class trilogy (Life Class, Toby’s Room, and Noonday).
Apr 8, 2019 · Cressida Leyshon speaks with Pat Barker about “Medusa,” her short story from the April 15, 2019, issue of The New Yorker.
