Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951) [1] is a British novelist and academic.
Duncker was born in Kingston, Jamaica, [1] and named after her aunt Patricia Beer. [2] Duncker attended Bedales School in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She earned a doctorate from St Hugh's College, Oxford. [3]
She has taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1991–2002) and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. From 2007 to 2015 she worked as Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester. [3]
Short stories: