Robert McLiam Wilson
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Robert McLiam Wilson (born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1964) is a novelist.
Mc Liam Wilson has written three novels : Ripley Bogle (a novel about London where the central character is a homeless person. It was winner of the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, of the Betty Trask Prize and the Irish Book Award in 1990), Manfred's Pain' (1992), a book he himself loathes now, and Eureka Street (1996), a very successful novel on the sectarian troubles in Northern Ireland. It focuses on the lives of two friends, one Catholic, one Protestant shortly before and after the IRA ceasefires in 1994. A BBC TV adaption of Eureka Street premiered 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. A forthcoming novel, The Extremists, is expected in 2006. Robert McLiam Wilson is married and lives in Belfast.
