Irish writer Christopher Nolan, who won the Whitbread Prize in 1988, died earlier today in Dublin at the age of 43. He won for his autobiographical novel, Under the Eye of the Clock. He suffered from severe cerebral palsy and wrote using a ‘unicorn device’ attached his forehead to hit the keyboard.
He wrote an acclaimed book of poetry at 15 called Dam Burst of Dreams and published Under the Eye of the Clock at 22. The book recounts the story of severely handicapped Joseph Meehan and pipped work from Ian McEwan and Seamus Heaney for the Whitbread.
