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Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore
(first name ; 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.
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