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About Maurice Leitch
- Maurice Leitch (born 5 July 1933) is an author born in Northern Ireland.
- Leitch's work includes novels, short stories, dramas, screenplays and radio and television documentaries.
- His first novel was The Liberty Lad, published in 1965.
- His second novel, Poor Lazarus was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1969, and Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize in 1981. Leitch taught in primary schools in Antrim for several years before joining BBC Northern Ireland in 1960 as a producer/writer.
- In 1970, he moved to London to become a producer in the BBC's Radio drama department.
- From 1977 until 1989 he was editor of Radio Four's Book at Bedtime, until leaving in 1989 to write full-time.
- In the New Year Honours List, 31 December 1998, he was awarded an MBE for services to literature.
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