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Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL, Hon FBA (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) [1] is a British writer and novelist. [2] She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery.
Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics, where she read International History, and at Durham University. She taught History and Politics until 1982.
- Thornaby-on-Tees, England
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Oct 18, 2021 · Celebrated for her First World War trilogy, Barker has been reimagining the Trojan War through the eyes of its female victims. But what happens when gritty realism meets myth? By Daniel...
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Pat Barker is one of the reputed novelists and writer from England, who likes to write her books based on the literature and fiction genres. She has received many awards for her fiction novels, most of which are based on the themes of trauma, memory, survival, and recovery.
Sep 4, 2021 · Pat Barker, 78, published her first novel, Union Street, in 1982; it won the Fawcett Society prize, the first of her many literary awards. Her Regeneration trilogy, exploring the history of the...
Pat Barker won the Man Booker Prize in 1995 for 'The Ghost Road'. She was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her 40s, after taking a short writing course taught by Angela Carter.
Patricia Margaret Barker achieved literary prominence when she was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her trilogy of novels about World War I. Before the...
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