Editing Bernard MacLaverty (section)

==Biography==
MacLaverty was born in no. 73 Atlantic Avenue in the Newington area of north [[Belfast]],<ref name="toner">Aine Toner, [https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/author-bernard-maclaverty-i-dont-know-why-but-when-i-start-to-create-belfast-peeps-around-the-corner/a1356433294.html "Author Bernard MacLaverty: 'I don’t know why, but when I start to create, Belfast peeps around the corner'"]. ''Belfast Telegraph'', 29 May 2025. Retrieved 29 May 2025</ref> [[Northern Ireland]]. He was educated at [[Bellshill|Holy Family Primary School]] in Newington and then at [[St Malachy's College]]. After school, he studied at [[Queen's University Belfast]] where he worked as a medical laboratory technician; later he showed [[Seamus Heaney]] some poetry he had written, prompting the renowned poet to advise MacLaverty to stick to short stories.<ref name="toner"/> He lived in Belfast until 1975, when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children (Ciara, Claire, John and Jude). He initially lived in [[Edinburgh]] and then the island of [[Islay]] before settling in the [[Glasgow|West End of Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography |url=http://www.bernardmaclaverty.com/biography |website=Bernard MacLaverty |access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>

He was writer-in-residence at the Universities of [[University of Aberdeen|Aberdeen]], [[Liverpool John Moores University|Liverpool John Moores]], [[Augsburg University|Augsburg]] and [[Iowa State University|Iowa State]]. He was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence in the Celtic Studies Department of [[University of St. Michael's College]], a college at [[University of Toronto]], in October 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=SMC Sponsored Programs - Celtic Studies - Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence Program: University of St Michael's College|url=https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/students/celtic-artist-in-residence/#Bernard_MacLaverty_writerOctober_2007|website=stmikes.utoronto.ca|accessdate=28 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000921/https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/students/celtic-artist-in-residence/#Bernard_MacLaverty_writerOctober_2007|archive-date=29 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>