Bernard MacLaverty

Liam Harte (University of Manchester)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Eoghan Smith (Carlow College), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

Born 14 Sep 1942
Activity 1977-ongoing

Places

Born in Northern Ireland
Active in Northern Ireland; Scotland

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Novelist
Story-writer

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The novelist, short-story writer and scriptwriter Bernard Mac Laverty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at St Malachy’s grammar school. He worked as a medical laboratory technician (1960-70) before reading English at Queen’s University, Belfast as a mature student. In the late 1960s he joined the Belfast writers’ group founded by university lecturer Philip Hobsbaum, a group which fostered the talents of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. He graduated from Queen’s in 1974 and moved to Edinburgh the following year to take up a teaching post in a comprehensive school. He then lived and taught on the Isle of Islay until the success of his debut novel,

Lamb

(1980), enabled him to become a full-time writer in 1981. Since then he has published three…

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Citation: Harte, Liam. "Bernard MacLaverty". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 March 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2862, accessed 21 November 2024.]