Pat Barker
1943 – present · b. Thornaby-on-Tees
United Kingdom
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Biography
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018.
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Awards
- Honorary Fellow of the British Academy (2024)No list
- Bodley Medal (2020)No list
- honorary doctorate (1997)No list
- Booker Prize (1995)No list
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1995)No list
- Best of Young British Novelists (1983)No list
- Commander of the Order of the British EmpireNo list
Notable Works
- Another World
- Blow Your House Down
- Border Crossing
- Double Vision
- Life Class
- Regeneration Trilogy
- The Century's Daughter
- Union Street
- Toby's Room
Spouse
- David Barker
Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Durham University
