Robert McLiam Wilson

1964–

Robert McLiam Wilson, born Robert Wilson in Belfast’s New Lodge district in 1964, went to St Malachy’s College and read English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, but left before finishing and was for a time homeless. His first novel, Ripley Bogle (1989), received a Betty Trask Award in 1990, as well as the Rooney Prize. It was followed by Manfred’s Pain (1992) and Eureka Street (1996), adapted by the BBC, and a non-fiction book, The Dispossessed. Granta named him one of the Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He lives in Paris and writes for Charlie Hebdo and Libération.

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