Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her latest novel is The Silence of the Girls.
Biografie
Pat Barker wurde 1943 in Thornaby-on-Tees geboren. Sie stammt aus einer Arbeiterfamilie, studierte an der London School of Economics und unterrichtete Geschichte und Politik. Für den Roman "The Ghost Road", den letzten Band der "Regeneration"-Trilogie, erhielt sie 1995 den Booker Prize. 2001 wurde er mit dem "Welt"-Literaturpreis ausgezeichnet.
