Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore ( born August 25, 1921 in Belfast, † January 10, 1999 in Malibu, California ) was an Irish- Canadian writer and screenwriter.
Career
Moore was the son of an Irish surgeon and nationalists, and was a strict Catholic upbringing. During World War II he served as a medic. After the war, Moore worked for the UN Relief and Works Agency in Poland. Here he began to write reports.
Moore left Ireland in 1948 and became a Canadian citizen. From 1948 to 1952 he worked for the newspaper, The Gazette in Montreal and published simultaneously under the pseudonym Michael Bryan thriller. His first, in 1956 published under his own name novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York. When Alfred Hitchcock commissioned him with the screenplay for Torn Curtain (1966 ), he settled in California. From 1976 to 1989 Moore taught at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Moore received numerous literary awards, including the Prix littéraire du Québec (1958 ) or Hughes Irish Fiction Award (1988). Moore was a member of Aosdána. His work is published in German in Zurich Diogenes Verlag.