Pat Barker

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Pat Barker (2012)

Pat Mary Barker (born May 8, 1943 in Thornaby-on-Tees , England ) is a British writer .

Life

Barker published her first novel, Union Street she made her in 1982. Known novels trilogy regeneration in which they deal with the First World War employed. Siegfried Sassoon , Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen appear in the story, which starts from a hospital for traumatized British officers during the First World War and describes the efforts of those who stayed at home and those who returned to survive the war psychologically . The individual works are No Man's Land , The Eye in the Door and The Street of the Spirits . For the third volume she was awarded the Booker Prize . In 2001 she received the WELT Literature Prize . She then wrote the two-volume novel Life Class (2009) / Toby's Room (2012) about a group of art students at Slade School in the period before and during the First World War. In 2014, the second volume was translated into German, which Thomas Medicus believes would be difficult to understand without reading the first .

Barker is married and now lives in Durham , England .

Works

  • 1982 Union Street
    • Union Sreet , German by Elisabeth Hartmann, Munich: Orlanda-Frauenverlag 1995. ISBN 3-929823-28-4
  • 1984 Blow Your House Down
    • The decoys , German by Elisabeth Hartmann, Munich: Orlanda-Frauenverlag 1992. ISBN 3-922166-88-1
  • 1986 The Century's Daughter (1997 also released under the title Liza's England )
  • 1989 The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Regeneration trilogy
    • 1991 regeneration
    • 1993 The Eye in the Door
      • The eye in the door , German by Matthias Fienbork, Munich, Vienna: Hanser 1998. ISBN 3-446-19281-6
    • 1995 The Ghost Road
      • The street of the spirits , German by Matthias Fienbork, Munich, Vienna: Hanser 2000. ISBN 3-446-19842-3
  • 1998 Another World
    • The counter-image , German by Barbara Ostrop, Munich: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag 2001. ISBN 3-423-13093-8
  • 2001 Border Crossing
    • The ice splinter , German by Barbara Ostrop, Munich: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag 2003. ISBN 3-423-24351-1
  • 2003 Double Vision
  • 2004 A Mind to Kill
  • 2007 Life Class
  • Toby's Room . 2012, nominated for the Walter Scott Prize , among others
    • Toby's room . Translated from the English by Miriam Mandelkow. Zurich: Dörlemann 2014
  • Noonday . London: Hamish Hamilton, 2015
  • The Silence of the Girls. London: Hamish Hamilton and Penguin Books, 2018

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Medicus : War usually takes place in bad weather . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 8, 2014, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Barker, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barker, Pat Mary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Thornaby-on-Tees , England