ABSTRACT
Patricia Duncker is a novelist whose first novel, Hallucinating Foucault (1996), won the McKitterick Prize. Her subsequent work includes the novels James Miranda Barry (1999), The Deadly Space Between (2002a), The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge (2010) and Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance (2015). She has also published a short story collection, Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003), and a collection of critical work, Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays (2002b). Her fiction often investigates identity and genre and is typified by a highly informed literary and cultural awareness. In the interview she refers to novels and stories by Angela Carter (1982), Virginia Woolf (1998), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1964), Henri Alain-Fournier (1979), Hervé Guibert (1996) and Toni Morrison (1999), along with a book of essays by Morrison (2019) and biographies by Didier Eribon (1991) and James Miller (1993).
