Pat Barker

Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker (née Drake), born 8 May 1943, is an English writer and novelist renowned for her Regeneration Trilogy, which won the Booker Prize in 1995, and her recent Trojan War series beginning with The Silence of the Girls. Her fiction centers on themes of memory, trauma, survival, and recovery, often exploring working-class life in Northern England and the lingering effects of war on British society[1][2][3].