Dame Pat Barker
(she/her)Author
Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.
Pat Barker is the author of 17 novels. The Ghost Road, the final volume of her Regeneration trilogy, was awarded the Booker Prize, and the trilogy is regarded as being among the greatest historical novels of all time. Her novel The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize in the UK, and won the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in 2019. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 and was awarded a damehood for her distinguished contribution to literature in the King’s Birthday Honours in 2025. She lives in Durham, England.