New writing from the UK: Glenn Patterson

We are delighted to announce Glenn Patterson will be visiting Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Mar del Plata in September 2006.

Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961, and still lives there having studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. His first novel, Burning Your Own, was published in 1988 and won a Betty Trask Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second, Fat Lad, was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award in 1992 and he has since published three more novels: Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995); The International (1999); and Number 5 (2003). His new novel, That Which Was, will be published in 2004.Glenn has been Writer in Residence at the Universities of East Anglia, Cork and Queen's University, Belfast, and was one of two writers selected by the British Council and the Arts Council to attend the Literaturexpress Europa 2000 international literature tour. He has also presented a number arts and culture documentaries for television.

Glenn Patterson and New Writing

The opening chapter of one of his books and two essays by Glenn Patterson have been published in the New Writing anthology. In New Writing 12, you can read the opening chapter of That Which Was . If you do not have the anthology or you would like us to send you copies of the essays and chapter, please email us at info@britishcouncil.org.ar.

You might also like to check the New Writing website for further information on That Which Was:

• Interview with Glenn Patterson on That Which Was (transcript)
• Explosive secrets from the past: That Which Was by Glenn Patterson and Man and Boy by Patience Agbabi. On these New Writing web pages, you will access teachers’ pages with resources and suggestions, readers’ notes and a glossary.

Further information on Glenn Patterson

• Up-to-date profile for Glenn Patterson
• Interview with Glenn Patterson (audio)
• Extract from Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain
• BBC article about Glenn Patterson: ‘Writer probes Ulster’s dark mysteries’
• Writing believable dialogue by G Patterson. In this session he explores how to create believable dialogue for your narrative and focuses on how to write dialogue, narrator vs character, conveying character, dialogue as an asset and parodies of dialogue.