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Nick Laird


Born
Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland
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Genre
Fiction, Poetry


Nick Laird was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1975. He read English Literature at Cambridge University, and then worked for several years as a lawyer specializing in international litigation.

He is the author of two novels, Utterly Monkey and Glover's Mistake, and two collections of poetry, To A Fault and On Purpose. A new volume of poetry, Go Giants, is forthcoming from Faber in January 2013.

Laird has won many awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Rupert and Eithne Strong award, a Somerset Maugham award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He has published poetry and essays in many journals including the New Yorker, the Lon ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 3,779 ratings · 585 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors
Modern Gods
3.37 avg rating — 757 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions
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Utterly Monkey
3.19 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
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Glover's Mistake
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions
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Feel Free
3.91 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions
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Go Giants: Poems
3.61 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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Up Late
3.82 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions
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To a Fault
3.64 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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On Purpose
3.62 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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The Zoo of the New
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Dioses modernos
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“There is such a shelter in each other.”
― Nick Laird
tags: comfort, poetry, relationships
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“We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake
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“He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake
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