Abstract
Robert McLiam Wilson was born in 1964 in Belfast. He attended Cambridge University for a period before dropping out and temporarily becoming homeless, an incident that had a significant impact on his subsequent artistic development. Alongside fellow novelist Glen Paterson, McLiam Wilson is generally regarded as heralding a new generation of Northern Irish writers, which grew up amid the Troubles, and offers a different perspective to that of older figures like Seamus Heaney.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction |
| Editors | Brian W. Schaffer |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 254-255 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405192446 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |