Robert McLiam Wilson
Robert McLiam Wilson (born February 24, 1964 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a Northern Irish writer.
Life and work
McLiam Wilson grew up with six siblings (one of whom died early) in a Belfast working-class family. He began studying at St Catharine's College , Cambridge , but dropped out and was temporarily homeless.
In 1989 he published his first novel, Ripley Bogle . It is about a homeless man in London and has received several awards, including a. with the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Irish Book Award . The protagonist of his second novel Manfred's Pain (1992) is an old man whose life story is told in flashbacks. Eureka Street (1996) is a humorous portrayal of the friendship between a Protestant and a Catholic in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1994 IRA ceasefire. The BBC adapted the novel in 1999 as a mini-series. Another novel, The Extremists , has been announced for several years but has not yet been published.
McLiam Wilson also wrote (with Donovan Wylie) a study on poverty in the United Kingdom ( The Dispossessed , 1992), was a journalist and made a documentary on the Northern Ireland conflict for the BBC . In 2012 he wrote the text for the photo book Wilder Mann by the French photographer Charles Fréger.
Wilson was married and lives in Paris , where he writes for Charlie Hebdo and Liberation .
literature
Works
- 1989: Ripley Bogle (German by Susanne Lange at Schöffling & Co. 1996 and S. Fischer Verlag 1998)
- 1992: Manfred's Pain
- 1992: The Dispossessed
- 1996: Eureka Street (German by Christa Schuenke in S. Fischer Verlag 1997)
- 2012: Wild man
Secondary literature
- Caroline Magennis: Sons of Ulster. Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel . Oxford et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-0353-0043-7 .
- Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Carmen Zamorano Llena (Eds.): Redefinitions of Irish Identity. A postnationalist approach . Oxford et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-03911-558-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert McLiam Wilson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert McLiam Wilson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Profile at British Council Literature (Engl.)
- Interview in time
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian Shaffer (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction , Volume 1, Wiley-Blackwell 2010, pp. 254f.
- ^ Profile at British Council Literature
- ^ Page to the book at the publisher
- ↑ Robert McLiam Wilson: Episode 124 by An Irishman Abroad , SoundCloud , accessed April 2, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilson, Robert McLiam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Northern Irish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast , Northern Ireland |