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 17,392x
- 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 15,320x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- 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 10,795x
- 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 10,734x
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
Key dates
- Born
- 8 May 1943
via Wikidata · CC0
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
Article
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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1943 births20th-century English novelists20th-century English women novelists21st-century English novelists21st-century English women novelistsAlumni of the London School of EconomicsBooker Prize winnersDames Commander of the Order of the British EmpireEnglish historical novelistsEnglish women historical novelistsFellows of the British Academy