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Glenn Patterson FRSL (born 1961) is a writer from
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, Northern Ireland, best known as a novelist. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


Biography

Patterson was born in Belfast where he attended
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. He graduated from the
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(BA, MA), where he was a product of the
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under
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- Literature, British Council. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Arts, English and Literature and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast. He has been a writer in residence at the University of East Anglia and the
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, and was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence in the Celtic Studies Department of St. Michael's College at the
University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...
in October 2013. He lives in Belfast with his wife, Ali Fitzgibbon, and two children.


Work

In addition to his novels, he also makes documentaries for the
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and has published his collected journalistic writings as ''Lapsed Protestant'' (2006). He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4, and co-wrote with Colin Carberry the screenplay of the 2013 film ''
Good Vibrations "Good Vibrations" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was composed by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love. It was released as a single on October 10, 1966 and was an immediate critical and commercial hit, topping record ...
'', about the music scene in Belfast during the late 1970s (based on the true story of
Terri Hooley Terence Wilfred "Terri" Hooley (born 23 December 1948) is a prominent figure in the Belfast punk scene and founder of the Good Vibrations record shop and label, responsible for bands such as The Undertones, Rudi, Protex and The Outcasts making ...
) Patterson's recurring theme is the reassessment of the past. In ''The International'', he recovers that moment in Belfast's history just before the outbreak of
the Troubles The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an " ...
, to show diverse strands of city life around a city centre hotel, essentially to make the point that the political propagandists who explain their positions through history overlook its inconvenient complexity and the possibility that things might have turned out differently.


Bibliography


Novels

* ''Burning Your Own'' (London: Chatto and Windus, 1988) * ''Fat Lad'' (London: Chatto and Windus, 1992) * ''Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain'' (London: Chatto and Windus, 1995) * ''The International'' (London:
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, 1999) * ''Number 5'' (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003) * ''That Which Was'' (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2004) * ''The Third Party'' (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2007) * ''The Mill for Grinding Old People Young'' (London: Faber, 2012) * ''Gull'' (London: Head of Zeus, 2016) * ''Where Are We Now?'' (London: Head of Zeus, 2020)


Non-fiction

* ''Lapsed Protestant'' (Dublin:
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, 2006), journalistic writings * ''Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), memoir * ''Backstop Land'' (London:
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, 2019), journalistic writings


Awards

* 2016 Heimbold Visiting Chair of Irish Studies * 2014 BAFTA nomination * 2008 Lanaan Literary Fellowship * 2007 Elected to Aosdana * 1988
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the Irish American businessman Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers franchise and former US Ambassador to Ireland. The prize is awarded to Irish writers aged ...
* 1988 Betty Trask AwardBBC Get Writing bio.
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References


External links


Claire Burgess, "An Interview with Glenn Patterson"
''Nashville Review'', 1 August 2010.

''Belfast Telegraph'', 18 February 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Patterson, Glenn 1961 births 21st-century writers from Northern Ireland Academics of the University of East Anglia Alumni of the University of East Anglia Aosdána members Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Living people Male novelists from Northern Ireland People educated at Methodist College Belfast Writers from Belfast