Monday 23 February 2009

Christopher Nolan dies

Christopher Nolan, author and poet with severe cerebral palsy has died at the age of 43. He would write using a "unicorn" on his forehead to punch a keyboard, with his mother holding his head. He won the Whitbread prize for the autobiographical novel Under the Eye of the Clock in 1988.

Tributes to him can be found at

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gifted-writer-refused-to-be-shackled-by-his-disability-1648381.html


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gifted-writer-refused-to-be-shackled-by-his-disability-1648381.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/20/christopher-nolan-dies

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