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Pat Barker, born Patricia Mary W. Drake on 8 May 1943 in Thornaby-on-Tees, is a United Kingdom writer, novelist, screenwriter, and historian. She is educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Durham University. Barker writes in the English language and is associated with the Postmodernism movement. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.
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. Barker has received the Booker Prize, the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and an honorary doctorate. She is recognized in the Booker Prize collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 May 1943
- Works
- 103
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Barker
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Thornaby-on-Tees
- Occupation
- historian
- Educated at
- Durham University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- prose
- Movement
- Postmodernism
- Image
- Pat Baker sketch.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-05-08
- Commons category
- Pat Barker
- member of
- British Academy
- Commons Creator page
- Pat Barker
- writing language
- English language
- 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
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