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Patricia Duncker

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Patricia Duncker

Aliases: Patricia Marjory Duncker

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1951-06-29 (Kingston, Jamaica)
Nationality
British
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
novelist, academic, Professor of Prose Fiction
Active Years
1991-2015
Affiliations
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, University of East Anglia, University of Manchester

Education

Bedales School
Period: secondary school
Country: England
Newnham College, Cambridge
Faculty of English
Degree: BA
Period: undergraduate
Country: England
read English
St Hugh's College, Oxford
Degree: DPhil
Period: doctoral
Country: England
earned a doctorate

Awards

McKitterick Prize
1997
Work: Hallucinating Foucault
Organization: Society of Authors
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hallucinating Foucault

1996 novel

James Miranda Barry

1999 novel

The Deadly Space Between

2002 novel

Miss Webster and Chérif

2006 novel

The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge

2009 novel

Sophie and the Sibyl: a Victorian romance

2015 novel

Bibliography

  • Hallucinating Foucault (1996)
  • James Miranda Barry (1999)
  • The Deadly Space Between (2002)
  • Miss Webster and Chérif (2006)
  • The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge (2009)
  • Sophie and the Sibyl: a Victorian romance (2015)
  • Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees (1997, short stories)
  • Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003, short stories)

Legacy

British novelist and academic known for works exploring gender and identity.

Trivia

  • Named after her aunt Patricia Beer.