Education
He attended Street Malachy"s College and studied English at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge. However, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless.
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Career
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. A British Broadcasting Corporation television 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 British Broadcasting Corporation. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 "Best of Young British Novelists", despite the fact that he has not published new work in English since 1996.
His next novel, Extremists, has been postponed again and again.
Wilson reportedly married and moved to Paris. Currently he writes for Charlie Hebdo and Liberation in Paris.
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the Hughes Prize; Betty Trask Award; Irish Book Awards
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.