Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast.

He is the author of seven acclaimed novels: Burning Your Own (1988), which won the Rooney Prize & a Betty Trask First Novel Prize; Fat Lad (1992); Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995); The International (1999); Number 5 (2003); That Which Was (2004); and The Third Party (2007).

A collection of his journalistic writings, Lapsed Protestant, was published in 2006 & his ‘part memoir’ Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times was published in 2008.

He teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast and is a member of Aosdána.


The International is now available to download as an eBook from the Amazon Kindle store.