Pat Barker

| image = Pat Barker.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Pat Barker in October 2012 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Patricia Mary W. Drake | birth_date = | birth_place = Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Novelist | education = | alma_mater = London School of Economics | period = | genre = | subject = Memory, trauma, survival, recovery | movement = | notableworks = Regeneration Trilogy | spouse = David Barker | partner(s) = | children = 2 | relative(s) = | awards = Booker Prize, ''Guardian'' First Book Award | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }}

Patricia Mary W. Barker, , Hon FBA ( Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with ''The Silence of the Girls'' in 2018. Provided by Wikipedia