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Glenn Patterson


UK flag (b.1961)

Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast and educated there and at the University of East Anglia where he studied for an MA in Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter. He is the author of eight novels and two works of non-fiction. His plays and stories have been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and articles and essays have appeared in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Independent, Irish Times, Dublin Review. Before coming to Queen's as writer-in-residence (1994) he was Creative Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia and writer-in-residence at University College Cork. He has also presented numerous television documentaries and an arts review series for RTE. A film, Good Vibrations, co-written with Colin Carberry is due for cinema release in 2013. In 2008 he was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He is a member of Aosdana.
 
 
Novels
   Burning Your Own (1988)
   Fat Lad (1992)
   Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995)
   The International (1999)
   Number 5 (2003)
   That Which Was (2004)
   The Third Party (2007)
   Once Upon a Hill (2008)
   The Mill for Grinding Old People Young (2012)
   The Rest Just Follows (2014)
   Gull (2016)
   Where Are We Now? (2020)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Glenn Patterson recommends
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Close to Home (2023)
Michael Magee
"As beautiful as it is brilliant. Reading Close to Home is like crossing a frontier into a new and thrilling territory."
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Milkman (2018)
Anna Burns
"Utterly brilliant - a once-in-a-generation novel."

Books containing stories by Glenn Patterson
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Belfast Noir (2014)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville

Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1988) : Burning Your Own




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