Jamie O'Neill (writer)

Jamie O'Neill (born in Dún Laoghaire in 1962 ) is an Irish writer and journalist .

biography

Jamie O'Neill was born in Dún Laoghaire near Dublin in 1962 . He attended a college of the Presentation Brothers , a Jesuit- affiliated Catholic congregation , in County Dublin . After a very difficult relationship with his father (and in a household with no books), he left his family at the age of 17. From 1982 to 1988 lived O'Neill with the 28 years older British BBC presenter Russell Harty together; after his AIDS- related death he got into a serious crisis. After a time alone in London , he worked from 1990 to 2000 as a night porter in a psychiatric hospital in Surrey . In 1990 he met his new life partner in London, the ballet dancer Julien Joly at the time .

O'Neill made his literary debut in 1989 and 1990 with two novels that are relatively short and mainly revolve around a single character in a small environment. His third novel and highly regarded major work to date, At Swim, Two Boys from 2001, describes a love story between two very contrasting young men and is set in Dublin as part of the historical events of the Easter Rising in 1916; the title is a reference to the novel At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien . Written as a " stream of consciousness, " At Swim, Two Boys has repeatedly made reviewers think of James Joyce . The official performance of At Swim, Two Boys at Somerset House , London fell on September 11, 2001 and was overwhelmed by the day's events .

In addition to his novels, O'Neill has also written short stories and is a journalist; He also wrote the short film Forgiveness and was also co-director of its realization. After two decades abroad, O'Neill now lives in a Gaeltacht region in County Galway in western Ireland.

Awards

• 2002: Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction, for At Swim, Two Boys
• 2002: Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction, for At Swim, Two Boys

Works

• Disturbance (novel), 1989
• Kilbrack (novel), 1990
• At Swim, Two Boys (Roman), Scribner (Simon & Schuster) 2001, ISBN 0-7432-0713-0
  • German: In the sea, two boys . Roman , translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser . Luchterhand, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-630-87139-9
• The Crow who Answered the Phone (short story)
• Moody and Gay (short story)
• Nights od Rhodes (short story)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jamie O'Neill in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jamie O'Neill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of the author

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Project MUSE - New Hibernia Review , Summer 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed January 26, 2009)  
2. ↑ Jamie O'Neill - Short Stories
3. ↑ Jamie O'Neill - Journalism
4. ↑ Forgiveness on the author's HP
5. ↑ Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed January 26, 2009)