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Pat Barker

(1943 - )

About Pat Barker

Pat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Union St, her first novel, was published by Virago in 1982 to huge critical acclaim. Barker won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993 and the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Durham.

Series

Regeneration Trilogy
1. Regeneration (1991)
2. The Eye in the Door (1993)
3. The Ghost Road (1995)
The Regeneration Trilogy (omnibus) (1996)

Novels

Union Street (1982)
Blow Your House Down (1984)
The Century's Daughter (1986)
aka Lisa's England
The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
Another World (1998)
Border Crossing (2001)
Double Vision (2003)
Life Class (2007)

Anthologies edited

Virago Modern Classics Box Set (2004) (with Angela Carter)

Awards

	Guardian Fiction Prize Best Novel winner (1993) : The Eye in the Door
	Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1995) : The Ghost Road
	The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1995) : The Ghost Road

Pat Barker recommends

The Telling (1998)
Miranda Seymour
"One of the most skillful depictions of the power of evil I have read for a long time."

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