Biography
Glenn Patterson is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied at Methodist College Belfast and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA and an MA in creative writing.
He is best known as a novelist, with his debut Burning Your Own (1988) winning the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Betty Trask Award. Patterson co-wrote the screenplay for the film Good Vibrations (2012) with Colin Carberry. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre. He has also written radio plays, presented BBC documentaries and published collections of journalism.
