Maurice Leitch is a renowned author, born in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. He is author of The Liberty Lad, Poor Lazarus, Silver's City, and many other works. In 1969, he moved to London 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.

Leitch was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1969 for his novel Liberty Lad, and he was awarded the Whitbread Prize in 1981 for his novel Silver's City.

Published works

• Liberty Lad
• Poor Lazarus (MacGibbon & Kee Ltd, London,1969)
• Stamping Ground, 1975
• Silver's City 
• Chinese Whispers
  Chinese Whispers
  Chinese Whispers is a 1987 novella by Maurice Leitch published as a Hutchinson Novella in Australia and the United Kingdom and as part of the Harper Short Novel Series in the United States....
  
  , 1987
• The Hands of Cheryl Boyd
• Burning Bridges
• Gilchrist
• The Smoke King
• Introducing Fagan, 1992 (radio play directed by Ned Chaillet
  Ned Chaillet
  Edward William "Ned" Chaillet, III is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.Ned Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Mass. but is a "native of Washington" according to the New York Times. He has lived in Britain since 1973.His newspaper career began at the...
  
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• A Shout in the Distance, 1999 (radio play directed by Ned Chaillet
  Ned Chaillet
  Edward William "Ned" Chaillet, III is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.Ned Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Mass. but is a "native of Washington" according to the New York Times. He has lived in Britain since 1973.His newspaper career began at the...
  
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• Swan Song for the Nightingale, 2003 (radio play directed by Ned Chaillet
  Ned Chaillet
  Edward William "Ned" Chaillet, III is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.Ned Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Mass. but is a "native of Washington" according to the New York Times. He has lived in Britain since 1973.His newspaper career began at the...
  
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• Something Cool, 2005 (radio play directed by Ned Chaillet
  Ned Chaillet
  Edward William "Ned" Chaillet, III is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.Ned Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Mass. but is a "native of Washington" according to the New York Times. He has lived in Britain since 1973.His newspaper career began at the...
  
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• Dining at the Dunbar (Lagan Press, Belfast, 2009)