Glenn Paterson | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Education | Methodist College, Belfast University of East Anglia |
| Notable awards | Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Betty Trask Award |
Glenn Patterson FRSL (born 1961) is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best known as a novelist. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [1]
Patterson was born in Belfast, where he attended Methodist College Belfast. [2] He graduated from the University of East Anglia (BA, MA), where he was a product of the UEA creative writing course under Malcolm Bradbury. [3]
In addition to writing novels, Patterson also makes documentaries for the BBC, 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 , about the music scene in Belfast during the late 1970s [3] (based on the true story of Terri Hooley). [4] [5]
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, 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. [6]
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. [7]
Patterson has been a writer in residence at the University of East Anglia and the University College Cork, and was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence in the Celtic Studies Department of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto in October 2013. [8]
He lives in Belfast with his wife, Ali Fitzgibbon, and two children. [9]
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