Bernard MacLaverty was born on 14 September 1942 and is an Irish fiction writer and novelist.
10 Facts About Bernard MacLaverty
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Bernard MacLaverty lived in Belfast until 1975, when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children.
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Bernard MacLaverty initially lived in Edinburgh and then the island of Islay before settling in the West End of Glasgow.
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Bernard MacLaverty was Writer-in-Residence at the Universities of Aberdeen, Liverpool John Moores, Augsburg and Iowa State.
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Bernard MacLaverty was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence in the Celtic Studies Department of University of St Michael's College, a college at University of Toronto, in October 2007.
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Bernard MacLaverty is the author of five novels and seven short story collections.
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Bernard MacLaverty has written six collections of short stories, the contents of which are mostly in Collected Stories.
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Bernard MacLaverty wrote a screenplay for Cal in 1984, which was picked up for production by Goldcrest Films; Helen Mirren and John Lynch starred in Cal, and Mark Knopfler composed the film soundtrack, called Cal.
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Bernard MacLaverty adapted Lamb for the screen; Liam Neeson and Hugh O'Conor starred in Lamb and Van Morrison composed the soundtrack.
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Bernard MacLaverty's work has received multiple awards including being nominated for the Booker Prize in 1997 for Grace Notes.