Pat Barker wins Booker Prize

Title

Pat Barker wins Booker Prize

Genre

Speech

TX Date

8 Nov 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:00:21

Description

Part of acceptance speech by writer Pat Barker following the award of the 1995 Booker Prize, for her novel The Ghost Road on people seeing her writing style as masculine now she is writing about the First World War.

Contributors

Pat Barker

Keywords

Books; Authors; Writers; Novelists; Creative writing; First World War (1914-1918); Wars (events); Literary prizes; Booker prize; The Ghost Road; Pat Barker

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