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Robert McLiam Wilson (born Robert Wilson, 24 February 1966,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert McLiam Wilson )〕 Andersonstown, Belfast) is a Northern Irish novelist. He attended St Malachy's College and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge;〔(Goodreads: Robert McLiam Wilson (Author of Eureka Street) )〕 however, he dropped out〔 and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works. 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. It won the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards 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. 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. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert McLiam Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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