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Sat 02 Feb 2009Tributes paid to Christopher Nolan (43)
TRIBUTES HAVE been paid to the author Christopher Nolan, who died yesterday at the age of 43. Nolan, who had cerebral palsy, won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1988 for his autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock.
His first book, a collection of poems, Damburst of Dreams, was published in 1981 and his novel, The Banyan Tree, was published in 1999. Nolan was a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. Born in Dublin, he lived in Sutton and Clontarf.
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