Glenn Patterson
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Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961. He attended Methodist College Belfast. He studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia taught by Malcolm Bradbury and returned to Northern Ireland in 1988. In addition to his novels, he also make documentaries for the BBC and has published his collected journalistic writings as Lapsed Protestant (2006).
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.
Glenn Patterson is currently a tutor in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast.
His novels are
- 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)
A collection of Patterson's journalistic writings were published in 2006 in Lapsed Protestant.
He has received, among others, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Betty Trask Award.
