Pat Barker
Pat Barker on The Silence of the Girls: ‘The Iliad is myth – the rules for writing historical fiction don’t apply’
The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one day
Pat Barker
07, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM
Pat Barker: ‘For women, European literature begins with silence’
The author on life-changing Homer, Antony Sher’s humour and a poem by a man condemned to die
Pat Barker
31, Aug, 2018 @8:59 AM
What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more
As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world
Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson, Anne Enright, Peter Carey, Marlon James Pat Barker, John Banville, Penelope Lively, Ben Okri and DBC Pierre
30, Jun, 2018 @8:00 AM
Why have we ignored the hard-learned lessons of the first world war? | Pat Barker
Pat Barker: War does not end on the battlefield. Poems by traumatised children in Syria are a reminder that the horror will haunt them forever
Pat Barker
01, Aug, 2014 @10:35 AM
Untold stories of the war
Jeremy Paxman, Michael Morpurgo, Pat Barker and other writers tell some of the surprising and heart-rending stories still emerging from the conflict
Jeremy Paxman, Michael Morpurgo, Sebastian Faulks, Margaret MacMillan, Richard Curtis, Terry Pratchett, Pat Barker, Richard J Evans, Max Hastings, Antony Beevor, Helen Dunmore
26, Jul, 2014 @7:00 AM
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Week three: 'I needed to write from the viewpoint of a character who was intelligent, compassionate and well informed but who had no direct experience of the fighting in France'
Pat Barker
31, Aug, 2012 @9:55 PM
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