The Silence of the Girls - Grand Format

Biographie de Pat Barker

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.