Maurice Leitch

Maurice Leitch is author of The Liberty Lad, Poor Lazarus, Silver's City and many other works. In 1969, he moved to London from his native Northern Ireland to become a producer in the BBC's radio drama department. In 1977 he became editor of A Book at Bedtime on Radio Four until leaving in 1989 to write full-time.

He was awarded the 1969 Guardian Fiction Prize for Liberty Lad. Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize in 1981. In addition, he has written over twenty television and radio plays and is a winner of the Golden Harp Award. In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for services to literature. Maurice Leitch died in 2023.

‘Perhaps the finest Irish novelist of his generation’ - Robert McLiam Wilson