Nick Laird
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Co. Tyrone, and studied English at the University of Cambridge, where he won the Quiller Couch Award for creative writing. His debut collection, To a Fault (2005), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize; his second, On Purpose (2007), the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is the author of two novels and lives in London.
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Books by Nick Laird
On Purpose
Nick Laird
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for a number of other awards besides, To ...
To a Fault
Nick Laird
In this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. Journeying between his native Ulster and his ...
Go Giants
Nick Laird
To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset ...
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