Robert McLiam Wilson

Robert McLiam Wilson studied at St Catharine's College and St Malachy's College. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Ulster University and Charlie Hebdo. Works named in the authority record are Eureka Street. Distinctions recorded are Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

• Birth Name — Robert Wilson • Born — 24 February 1964 • Birthplace — Belfast, Northern Ireland • Occupation — * Novelist • journalist • Language — English • Genre — * Crime • Thriller • Satire • Notable Works — * Ripley Bogle • Eureka Street • Education — St Malachy's College; St Catharine's College, Cambridge • Awards — * Betty Trask Award • Rooney Prize

He was born in the New Lodge district of Belfast and then moved to Turf Lodge and other places in the city. He attended St Malachy's College and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works. Wilson moved to Paris where he writes for Charlie Hebdo and Libération. He also writes occasionally for The Guardian, Corriere della Sera and Le Monde.

McLiam Wilson has written three novels: Ripley Bogle (1989), Manfred's Pain (1992), Eureka Street (1996) Ripley Bogle is a novel about a homeless man in London. Eureka Street focuses on the lives of two Belfast friends, one Catholic and one Protestant, shortly before and after the IRA ceasefires in 1994. A BBC TV adaptation of Eureka Street was broadcast in 1999. He is also the author of a non-fiction book about poverty, The Dispossessed (1992), and has made television documentaries for the BBC. His next novel, Extremists, has been postponed again and again.

His work has been described as 'strikingly original' and as 'one of the most influential literary voices to emerge from Northern Ireland since the Troubles began [who has] challenged the understanding of contemporary Irishness'.

• Ripley Bogle (1989) • Manfred's Pain (1992) • Eureka Street (1996)[(-φ)]

Robert McLiam Wilson is recorded as having received Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.