Patricia Duncker

Patricia Duncker is the author of four novels: HALLUCINATING FOUCAULT (1996), shortlisted for the IMPAC award and winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize; JAMES MIRANDA BARRY (1999); THE DEADLY SPACE BETWEEN (2002); and MISS WEBSTER AND CHERIF (2006), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She has also published two collections of short fiction, MONSIEUR SHOUSHANA'S LEMON TREES (1997) and SEVEN TALES OF SEX AND DEATH (2003). All her fiction has been widely translated.

Her critical work includes SISTERS AND STRANGERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST FICTION (1992) and a collection of essays, WRITING ON THE WALL (2002), and she has published many literary essays and scholarly articles. She works as an editor for Honno, the Welsh Women’s Press, and has co-edited, with Janet Thomas, several collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is SAFE WORLD GONE (2007).

Patricia Duncker has worked as a university lecturer in Britain and abroad for many years and is now Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.

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