Pat Barker

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Pat Barker (born May 8 1943^[1]) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, Union Street, in 1982 and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the Regeneration trilogy, a fictionalised account of the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, and the fictional protagonist, Lt. Billy Prior. The final book in the trilogy, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize upon its publication.

In 1965 Barker completed a degree in international history at the London School of Economics^[2] and subsequently studied at Durham University marrying David Barker, a now retired Zoology Professor at the institution. Their daughter Anna Ralph published her own novel The Floating Island (Hutchinson, ISBN 10: 0091795559) in 2007.

Barker's biographer is Sharon Montieth.^[3].

[edit] Books

• Union Street (1982)
• Blow Your House Down (1984)
• The Century's Daughter (also known as Liza's England; 1986)
• The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
• Regeneration Trilogy :
  • Regeneration (1991)
  • The Eye in the Door (1993)
  • The Ghost Road (1995)
• Another World (1998)
• Border Crossing (2001)
• Double Vision (2003)
• Life Class (2007)

[edit] References

1. ^ Amanda Thursfield, 'Pat Barker', www.contemporaryauthors.com (2002). Retrieved 4 January 2009.
2. ^ 'Celebrated Alumni: UK', www.lse.ac.uk (2007) Retrieved 17 January 2008.
3. ^ Sharon Monteith, Pat Barker (London: Northcote House, 2002)

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v • d • e Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1969–1980 P. H. Newby (1969) · Bernice Rubens (1970) · V. S. Naipaul (1971) · John Berger (1972) · James Gordon Farrell (1973) · Nadine Gordimer / Stanley Middleton (1974) · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) · David Storey (1976) · Paul Scott (1977) · Iris Murdoch (1978) · Penelope Fitzgerald (1979) · William Golding (1980) 1981–2000 Salman Rushdie (1981) · Thomas Keneally (1982) · J. M. Coetzee (1983) · Anita Brookner (1984) · Keri Hulme (1985) · Kingsley Amis (1986) · Penelope Lively (1987) · Peter Carey (1988) · Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) · A. S. Byatt (1990) · Ben Okri (1991) · Michael Ondaatje / Barry Unsworth (1992) · Roddy Doyle (1993) · James Kelman (1994) · Pat Barker (1995) · Graham Swift (1996) · Arundhati Roy (1997) · Ian McEwan (1998) · J. M. Coetzee (1999) · Margaret Atwood (2000) 2001–present Peter Carey (2001) · Yann Martel (2002) · DBC Pierre (2003) · Alan Hollinghurst (2004) · John Banville (2005) · Kiran Desai (2006) · Anne Enright (2007) · Aravind Adiga (2008)