Robert McLiam Wilson

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Robert McLiam Wilson (born 1964 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish novelist.

McLiam Wilson has written three novels; Ripley Bogle (1989), Manfred's Pain (1992) and Eureka Street (1996). Ripley Bogle is a novel about a homeless man in London. It won the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and the Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Award in 1990. 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 forthcoming novel, The Extremists, has been postponed again to June 2007.

McLiam Wilson is married and lives in Belfast.