Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson (born 1961) is a Northern Irish novelist from Belfast, best known for works such as Burning Your Own (1988), The International (1999), and Where Are We Now? (2020), which often explore themes related to his hometown and the Troubles. His debut novel Burning Your Own won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and Betty Trask Award in 1988; he was elected to Aosdána in 2007, received the Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2008, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. He also co-wrote the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Good Vibrations (2013) and serves as Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast.