Utterly Monkey

Nick Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet whose debut works Utterly Monkey (Betty Trask Prize) and To a Fault (Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize) established him as a major literary voice, followed by acclaimed novels like Modern Gods and poetry collections including Up Late. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Guggenheim Fellow, and Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University Belfast, he has won numerous awards such as the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award.