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Robert McLiam Wilson

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February 24, 1966

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Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast on 24 February 1966 and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author of the novels Ripley Bogle (1989), winner of the Hughes Prize,a Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish Book Award and the Betty Trask Prize; Manfred's Pain (1992); and Eureka Street (1996), winner of the Belfast Arts Award for Literature. He is also the author,with Donovan Wylie, of The Dispossessed (1992), a non-fiction book about poverty.

In 2003, Robert McLiam Wilson was named by Granta magazine as one of20 'Best of Young British Novelists', despite the fact that he has not published new work in English since 1996.
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Average rating: 4.12 · 941 ratings · 110 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Eureka Street 4.26 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 1996 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Ripley Bogle 3.71 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Autopsja 3.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Dispossessed 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	manfried's pain 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	La Douleur De Manfred 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Eureka Street, Belfast by Robert McLiam Wilson, Markku Päkkilä (translator) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	The Inflatable Citizen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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“All stories are love stories.”
― Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

tags: life , love , writing

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“There are those nights wehn you're pushing thirty and life seems over. When you feel like you'll never tie up any ends and no one iwll ever kiss your lips again.”
― Robert McLiam Wilson

tags: love

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