Pat Barker - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

In 1983, Barker won the Fawcett Society prize for fiction for Union Street. In 1993 she won the Guardian First Book Award for the Eye in the Door, and in 1995 she won the Booker Prize for Ghost Road. In May 1997, Barker was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University as Doctor of the University. In 2000, she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

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