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Bernard MacLaverty (born 14 September 1942) is an Irish fiction writer and novelist. His novels include Cal and Grace Notes. He has written five books of short stories.
The official site of Bernard MacLaverty. ‘MacLaverty locates the precise point where life bleeds into art, and art into life. Even in the briefest of his stories his themes emerge slowly, unforced, as if pondering themselves; like the best writers through the ages, he is confident and questioning, engaged and wise.’.
Bernard MacLaverty, writer of fiction, was born in Northern Ireland and moved to Scotland in 1975. Both of these places, and themes such as Catholicism, guilt and tension, inform his novels and short stories. He is also the author of two books for children and has written several screenplays.
Biography. Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast (14.9.42) and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and occasionally a Writer-in-Residence (Universities of Aberdeen, Augsburg, Liverpool John Moore’s and ...
Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942 and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and, for two years in the mid eighties, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Aberdeen.
Jul 31, 2021 · The doctor in Blackthorns and his US army counterpart together save the life of a Catholic man with the help of a new wonder drug, an antibiotic made by Pfizer (a nod to the present pandemic), but...
Bernard MacLaverty is one of the finest writers to emerge from Belfast in the past 50 years. He talks to Christina Patterson about life, death and compassion
