Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast and studied at Queen's University and on the Creative Writing Masters at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of seven novels: Burning Your Own (1988), for which he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Betty Trask first novel prize; Fat Lad (1992), Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995), The International (1999), Number 5 (2003), and That Which Was (2004). While the city that most often features as the playground where history conditions present is his native Belfast, in his latest novel, The Third Party (2007), Patterson sets his narrative on the scarred face of contemporary Hiroshima. In 2008, Patterson was awarded a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, an honour which recognizes writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work. Glenn Patterson is Creative Writing Fellow at Queen's University Belfast and a member of Aosdána.