Pat Barker (Thornaby-on-Tees, England, 1943) began writing in 1982 after participating in a workshop given by the distinguished novelist Angela Carter. Since then she has published fifteen novels —among which it is worth mentioning her famous trilogy on the First World War— that have made her one of the inexcusable references of contemporary British narrative. His work, translated into several languages, has won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize in 1995.