Pat Barker
Pat Barker
b. 8 May 1943 · From United Kingdom- Books
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Patricia Mary W. Barker (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 for a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls.
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The Regeneration Trilogy should be read in the following order: "Regeneration," followed by "The Eye in the Door," and concluding with "The Ghost Road."
Pat Barker won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1995 for her novel "The Ghost Road," which is the final book in her acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy.
Her novel "Regeneration" was adapted into a film titled "Regeneration" (released as "Behind the Lines" in the US) in 1997, starring Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby.
A good starting point for new readers is often the Regeneration Trilogy, beginning with "Regeneration," or her more recent standalone novel "The Silence of the Girls," which retells the Trojan War from a female perspective.
Yes. Pat Barker was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000, and was made a Dame (DBE, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours List, both for services to literature. Her 1995 Booker Prize is for her novel The Ghost Road, not a career award.