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When you’re a writer, you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you, and if you are at all intelligent you realize that you have lost something. But I think there has always been this dichotomy in a real writer. He wants to be terribly human, and he responds emotionally, but at the same time there’s this cold observer who cannot cry.
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Birth: | 25th August, 1921 |
Death: | 11th January, 1999 |
Nationality: | Canadian, Irish |
Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter |
Brian Moore was born and grew up in Belfast. He 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. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films. Moore was educated at St Malachy's College. He also served as a civilian with the British Army in North Africa, Italy and France. He emigrated to Canada in 1948, worked as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette, and became a Canadian citizen. Moore lived in Canada from 1948 to 1958, moving to New York in 1959 to take up a Guggenheim Fellowship. He taught creative writing at UCLA.
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