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British writer

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Vinony's link graph records 312 inbound references to Pat Barker, and connects out to Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Literature and Thornaby-on-Tees.

It sits within the topics 1943 births, 20th-century English novelists and 20th-century English women novelists.

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Person · Open Library

Born
8 May 1943
Works
103

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Film & TV

Writing

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DE

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
69
Total plays
1,059

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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.

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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

Wikidata facts

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date of birth
1943-05-08
Commons category
Pat Barker
Commons Creator page
Pat Barker
birth name
Patricia Mary W. Drake
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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.

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