Fiction writer

Bernard MacLaverty

Monday, October 10, 2005

Talk on craft
3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium

BERNARD MacLAVERTY was born in Belfast and lived there until 1975, when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children. He has been a medical laboratory technician, a mature student, a teacher of English, and, for two years in the mid-eighties, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Aberdeen. After living for a time in Edinburgh and the Isle of Islay, he now lives in Glasgow. He is a member of Aosdana, an affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, and is currently Visiting Writer at Liverpool’s John Moores University and Visiting Professor at Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde. He has published four collections of short stories, most recently Walking the Dog & Other Stories, and four novels, the most recent of which is The Anatomy School. In addition to these works, he has also adapted his work for radio, television, and the screen.

To learn more about Bernard MacLaverty, see his website.

Listen to an interview with Bernard MacLaverty.

This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the MSU College of Arts and Humanities, the MSU Office of Institutional Diversity, MSU Library Services, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.