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Nick Laird

Northern Irish novelist and poet · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1975 · age 51

Nicholas Laird is a Northern Irish novelist and poet.

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2016Guggenheim FellowshipAward2013Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2008Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeAwardSomerset Maugham AwardAward2005Rooney Prize for Irish LiteratureAward2004Eric Gregory AwardAward1975Born

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