Stephen Gilbert (novelist)

Stephen Gilbert (1912–2010) was a Northern Irish novelist.

Career

He was born at Newcastle, County Down (Northern Ireland) and educated at the Leas School in Hoylake and Loretto School in Musselburgh.[1] He worked for the Northern Whig until the mid-1930s when he joined the family firm of McCausland in Belfast. In 1939 he joined the Supplementary Reserve and served with the 3rd Ulster Searchlight Regiment in France. His wartime memories, including the evacuation at Dunkirk, form the basis of Bombardier (1944).

Gilbert was a friend and protégé of Forrest Reid.

His last novel, Ratman's Notebooks (1968), was adapted into a film as Willard in 1971. The film was remade in 2003 under the same title.

Stephen Gilbert died at a nursing home at Whitehead, north of Carrickfergus, County Antrim on 23 June 2010.[2][1][3]

Published works

  • The Landslide (1943)
  • Bombardier (1944)
  • Monkeyface (1948)
  • The Burnaby Experiments (1952)
  • Ratman's Notebooks (1968)

In 2012 Valancourt Books began reprinting the works of Stephen Gilbert. The Landslide, Monkeyface, The Burnaby Experiments and Ratman's Notebooks are currently in print with Bombardier scheduled for 2015.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Stephen Gilbert: Writer who was lauded by Forster but is best known for a lurid novel about rats". The Independent. 2 July 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Brown, Kristian An exhibition on Forrest Reid and Stephen Gilbert, Queen's University Belfast, 2008.
  3. ↑ Kennedy, Diarmuid Rats!, Verbal Magazine Issue 14, pp. 6-7.
  4. ↑ Stephen Gilbert biography and Valancourt editions
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