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Outside of his fiction writing, Bernard MacLavery has authored plays for radio and TV. He has also written several other awards that have been adapted for the Silver Screen, shortlisted for several prestigious prizes, and been a winner of several. This was the novel that would later on become adapted into a film that had Liam Neeson in the starring role. His second novel was the 1980 published novel “Lamb,” which was the runner-up of the Guardian Fiction Award and winner of the Book Award by the Scottish Arts Council. His first published work was “Man in Search of a Poet,” which came out in 1978. In addition to that bestselling work, he is also the author of the 2006 published “Matters of Life and Death,” the 1982 work “A Time to Dance and Other Stories,” and “The Great Profundo and Other Stories,” which was published in 1987.īernard MacLaverty would also become the publisher of several novels over the years. It was this work that would be the winner of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Two years after moving to Scotland and while he was still teaching, he published “Secrets and Other Stories,” a collection of short stories in 1977. He is also a member of Aosdana, which brings together creative artists in Ireland. He has also been a visiting professor and writer at Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde and John Moores Univerity in Liverpool.įor a two-year period in the mid-eighties, he worked at the University of Aberdeen as a writer in residence. Over the years, MacLaverty has been at various times a guest author at Iowa State University and the University of Augsburg.

He spent more than a decade working at the university before he went back to school to train as a teacher studying English. He would ultimately end up at Queen’s University’s anatomy department where he was a lab technician. After graduating from school with advanced-level qualifications in Chemistry and English, he decided to try to find employment. He would initially live in Islay and then in Edinburgh before finally making his home in Glasgow. The author was born in Belfast, where he spent much of his life until he was an adult and moved to Scotland with his wife and children. Bernard MacLaverty is an Irish bestselling author of literary fiction from Glasgow.