Writer Pat Barker initially misunderstood the letter for an income tax bill in honor of the king’s birthday.
Writer who is celebrated by them Regeneration trilogyJokingly said that he felt that HMRC was “really angry” because he had accepted the highest of honor of the king.
82 -year -old Dame Pat, appointed CBE in 2000, is being honored for his contribution to literature.
With 16 novels of his name, the Booker prize-winning is famous for the discovery of anti-war topics including trauma and memory.
Describing the moment he received the news of his Damahud, he said: “I picked up the envelope from the carpet and the first thing I saw was what a beautiful quality paper I saw, and I thought, this is either income tax that is really angry, or it’s something from the palace or cabinet office.
“No one else does that kind of paper quality. I still had to read paragraphs before it drowned.”
His first novel, Union streetHe was published in 1982 and won him the Best Young British novelist award of 1983.
It was later made in the film, Stanley and IrisStarring Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro.
He said: “One of those things, which, despite everything, I like the British Honor System, the way it records to those who do very little profiles, work for free, long, for weeks, months, years, for years, for some, for some, which they really believe and usually illegally, and other people, and they are really valid, and they are really valid, and they are very honored.
“I’m happy to be cherry.”
The author is known for discovering the effects of war in his novels, responsible as his grandfather and stepfather. Inspiration For some of his most popular books.
He said: “I was a very warfast.
“I think in my family, there were people who see very mental and physical injuries to war.
“My half -father, for example, was in 15 years of trenches, my grandfather had a bayonon wound, and he snatched into the kitchen sink, and the serious wound was terrible, was very clear, and he never talked about it. So you have found two things that are necessary. AuthorA story that is clearly present, but which is not being told.
“The last thing for any writer is a whole story. What you want as a writer is a mystery. And I had it.”
He began writing regeneration trilogy with the first book after English Lieutenant Billy in 1991 as he is being treated for Shelshock.
The book was adapted to a film in 1997, starring two pops actor Jonathan Pris and Maurice’s James Wilby.
In 1993, Dame Pat published the second book in the trilogy, Eyes in the doorWhich follows William River, who was the first cure psychiatrist at the Crackaghart Hospital in Edinburgh.
He was awarded the Guardian Fiction Award in the same year and won the Booker Award for Fiction in 1995. The Ghost RoadThe third book in the trilogy, which remembers the last months of the war from Billy’s alternative perspective, as he is going to re -connect the war, and William, who struggles with the work he has done to help men injured in the hospital.
Recently, the novelist was shortlisted for a women’s award for fiction in 2019 for his book, Girls silencePart of Troy woman Trillogy, which recalls the lives of women living through the Trojan War.
This is followed by women from Troy (2021) and The Woys Home (2024), and see the writer in his style, from historical fiction from literature to myth, and writing from the point of view of women rather than characters.
She said: “I wanted to deal with the experience of women, and especially with rape as a weapon of war, because it is actually Trojan Trillji, as it is at this time, and also that there is a modern field of political and legal debate, it also makes rape as a war crime and equal to other war crimes.
“I think this is a fight that is still being fought for women in many ways. And it shades the later life of women, but also of their children, who are very often rape products, and it is difficult for women and children and community that comes from women.
“So it seems as if it is thousands of years ago, but the myth is not really thousands of years ago. Myth is applicable to our lives today, and I always want to bring it out.”
Dame Pat was born in Thornabi-on-Tees, Cleveland, and was mainly raised by his grandparents.
After studying international history at the London School of Economics, he started his writing career in the late 30s and taught history and politics in colleges of further education till 1982.