10-1170: Laverty is an Irish surname that may refer to Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942), Northern Irish writer of fiction Colin Laverty (1937–2013), Australian medical practitioner Conor Laverty , Irish Gaelic footballer Eugene Laverty (born 1986), Irish motorcycle road racer Jan Laverty Jones (born 1949), American businesswoman and politician John Laverty (born 1982), Irish motorcycle road racer, brother of Eugene and Michael Maura Laverty (1907–1966), Irish author, journalist and broadcaster Michael Laverty (born 1981), Irish motorcycle road racer, brother of Eugene and John Michael McLaverty (1904–1992), Irish writer of novels and short stories Paul Laverty (born 1957), Scottish lawyer and scriptwriter Peter Laverty (1926–2013), British-Australian painter, print maker, art educator and gallery director Randy Laverty (born 1953), American politician Shannon Laverty , Canadian stand-up comedian See also [ edit ] Lafferty [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
20-670: A medical laboratory technician and studied at Queen's University Belfast . He lived in Belfast until 1975, when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children (Ciara, Claire, John, and Jude). He initially lived in Edinburgh and then the island of Islay before settling in the West End of Glasgow . He was Writer-in-Residence at the Universities of Aberdeen , Liverpool John Moores , Augsburg and Iowa State . He
30-504: A screenplay for Cal in 1984, which was picked up for production by Goldcrest Films ; Helen Mirren and John Lynch starred in Cal (1984), and Mark Knopfler composed the film soundtrack, also called Cal . The film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival , where Mirren won the award for Best Actress . It was received well by critics, but lost money in the box office on the order of –£118,000 net profit. He also adapted Lamb for
40-570: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bernard MacLaverty 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. MacLaverty was born in Belfast , Northern Ireland , and educated at Holy Family Primary School in the Duncairn district and then at St Malachy's College . After school, he worked as
50-527: The surname Laverty . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laverty&oldid=1103982294 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Irish origin Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Articles with short description Short description
60-790: The Pharic McLaren Award for the best radio play from Radio Industries of Scotland for 'My Dear Palestrina' and the Jacobs Award for best play from Radio Telefis Eireann for television production 'My Dear Palestrina' in 1981, the London Evening Standard Award for best screenplay for 'Cal' in 1984 and the Bronze medal for screenplay of 'Lamb'; also voted best film by the youth jury and by the ecumenical jury, Lucarno Film Festival in 1987. Augsburg University Too Many Requests If you report this error to
70-675: The loss of love, with memory and pain...this is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers’. His work has received multiple awards including being nominated for the Booker Prize in 1997 for Grace Notes . His novel Midwinter Break was the winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year in 2017 and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award . Other awards were
80-467: The midst of violence. Grace Notes , which was published in 1997, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction . It is about the conflict between a desire to compose and motherhood. The Anatomy School (2001) is a comedic coming-of-age novel. He has also written six collections of short stories, the contents of which are mostly in Collected Stories (Cape, 2013). MacLaverty wrote
90-1002: The screen; Liam Neeson and Hugh O'Conor starred in Lamb (1985) and Van Morrison composed the soundtrack. MacLaverty has written versions of his fiction for other media – radio plays, television plays, screenplays and libretti. In 2003 he wrote and directed a short film Bye-Child (BAFTA-nominated for "Best Short Film") and more recently wrote libretti for Scottish Opera's Five:15 series The King’s Conjecture , with music by Gareth Williams, and The Letter with music by Vitaly Khodosh. For Scottish Opera in 2012, and again with music by Gareth Williams, he wrote The Elephant Angel , an opera for schools, which toured Scotland and Northern Ireland . Novels Short story collections There have been several extensive assessments of his work including: Colm Tobin described '‘Midwinter Break as 'a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms – to an honest reckoning – with love and
100-631: Was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence in the Celtic Studies Department of University of St. Michael's College , a college at University of Toronto , in October 2007. MacLaverty is the author of five novels and seven short story collections. His first novel Lamb was published in 1980. It is about faith, relationships and love. It was followed by Cal in 1983. This is an examination of love in
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