Brian Moore (novelist)
| Brian Moore | |
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| Born |
25 August 1921 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Died | 11 January 1999 (aged 77) Malibu, California, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable awards |
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1975) Governor General's Award for English language fiction (1960 and 1975) |
| Spouse |
Jacqueline ("Jackie") Sirois (née Scully) (m. 1952–67) Jean Denny (m. 1967–99) |
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1975)
Jacqueline ("Jackie") Sirois (née Scully) (m. 1952–67)
Brian Moore (first name /briːˈæn/ bree-AN; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), who has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel", was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominent surgeon and the first Catholic to sit on the senate of Queen’s University and his mother, Eileen McFadden Moore, a Donegal farmer's daughter, was a nurse. His uncle was the prominent Irish nationalist, Eoin MacNeill, founder of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and Professor of Irish at University College Dublin.
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