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- Birth namePatricia Mary Barker
- Pat Barker was born on May 8, 1943 in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is a writer, known for Stanley & Iris (1990), Behind the Lines (1997) and Bookmark (1983). She was previously married to David Barker.
- SpouseDavid Barker(1978 - January 2009) (his death, 1 child)
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for her services to Literature.
- An author in London SW10, England
- Her book 'Regeneration' about the first World War was inspired by her grandfathers experiences and got great acclaim on both here and in America. and was nominated by the New York Times as 1 of the 4 Best Books of the Year - the only novel by a British author to be so honoured,.
- Her husband is a retired professor of zoology and they have 2 children.
- Born in Thornaby on Tees she later lived in the Dovecote Street area of Stockton and now lives in the Durham city area.
- I think the whole British psyche is suffering from the contradiction you see in Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, where the war is both terrible and never to be repeated and at the same time experiences derived from it are given enormous value. No one watches war films in quite the way the British do.
- I think there is a lot to be said for writing about history, because you can sometimes deal with contemporary dilemmas in a way people are more open to because it is presented in this unfamiliar guise, they don't automatically know what they think about it, whereas if you are writing about a contemporary issue on the nose, sometimes all you do is activate people's prejudices. I think the historical novel can be a backdoor into the present which is very valuable.
- [interview, 1992] I was strongly typecast as a northern, regional, working class, feminist "label, label, label" novelist. It's not a matter so much of objecting to the labels, but you do get to a point where people are reading the labels instead of the book. And I felt I'd got to that point.
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