WRITER

Pat Barker

1943 - Today

Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is a British writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat Barker has received more than 422,825 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pat Barker is the 4,955th most popular writer (up from 5,405th in 2019), the 3,605th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,412th in 2019) and the 413th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

420k
Page Views (PV)
47.69
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
26
Languages Editions (L)
3.06
Effective Languages (L*)
3.68
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Another world

Family, Fiction, Large type books

1998

Union Street

Fiction, Working class women, Lesbians

1982

Regeneration

Anthropologists, English Poets, Fiction

A historical fiction novel set during World War I, documenting characters based on real people and their experiences with shell shock and recovery at the CraigLockhart Hospital.

1991

The Eye in the Door

English Poets, Fiction, Gay men

**The second installment in the Regeneration Trilogy** London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men – pacifists, objectors, homosexuals – conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before – army psychiatrist William Rivers – Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be...The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it.The second book in the Regeneration trilogy

1993

The ghost road

English Poets, Fiction, Man Booker Prize Winner

1995

Double Vision

Fiction, Widows, Journalists

Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares – Stephen Sharkey is suffering the aftereffects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday reality of war, Stephen moves into a quiet and peaceful cottage in the north of England. It seems the perfect environment in which to write his book on the representations of war – one that will be based largely on Ben Frobisher's work. But Stephen's supposed isolation offers no protection from other people's suffering or the shattering effects of human brutality . . .

2003

Page views of Pat Barkers by language

Over the past year Pat Barker has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 47,432 views, followed by Italian (4,131), and French (3,081). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (59.65%), Italian (54.31%), and Portuguese (48.51%)