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Pat Barker, born Patricia Mary W. Drake on 8 May 1943 in Thornaby-on-Tees, is a British writer, novelist, screenwriter, and historian. She was educated at Durham University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Writing in English, she is associated with the Postmodernism movement and works primarily in prose.
Barker is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy. She has received the Booker Prize, an honorary doctorate, and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her notable works include *Regeneration*, *Double Vision*, *The Man Who Wasn't There*, *The Eye in the Door*, *The Ghost Road*, and *Las mujeres de Troya*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 May 1943
- Works
- 103
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 69
- Total plays
- 1,059
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,685x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,797x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The forensic evidence for Danny's guilt was overwhelming, but he was a good liar.”
- “Danny was a bottomless pit. He wanted other people to fill him, only in the process the other people ended up drained.”
- “...the horror of the images impossible to connect with the child he'd just left.”
- “I thought he was one of the most dangerous boys we've ever had through the school.”
- “I don't know why I killed her, I didn't know then and I don't know now. And I don't know how to live with it.”
- “But [Tom] was used to switching off, to living his life in separate compartments.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Patricia Mary W. Drake , ( 1943-05-08 ) 8 May 1943 (age 83) , Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Alma mater
- London School of Economics
- Subject
- Memory, trauma, survival, recovery
- Notable works
- Regeneration Trilogy
- Notable awards
- Booker Prize , Guardian First Book Award
- Spouse
- David Barker
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, DBE, FRSL, HonFBA (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) 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.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pat Barker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.