Joseph O'Connor
Joseph O'Connor (born September 20, 1963 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer .
life and work
O'Connor was born in Dublin in 1963; a younger sister is the singer Sinéad O'Connor (* 1966). After studying at University College Dublin (UCD) and at the Universities of Oxford and Leeds , O'Connor initially worked for an Irish Sunday newspaper and Esquire as a journalist , columnist and critic before publishing his first novel, Cowboys and Indians, in 1991 Shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award . Since then, O'Connor has published a variety of novels, essays and plays, of which The Secret World Of The Irish Male , a collection of hilarious essays, became a bestseller in Ireland. O'Connor was the Spiritus Rector and editor of Yeats is Dead! , a serialized novel by 15 Irish writers for Amnesty International , with contributions a. a. by Roddy Doyle and Frank McCourt , and in 1997, alongside Doyle, Enright , Hamilton , Johnston and Tóibín, also contributed to Finbar's Hotel by Dermot Bolger .
O'Connor lived in New York , London and for a short time in Nicaragua before moving back to Dublin, where he lives with his family. He has been Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick since 2014. He is a member of Aosdána .
Awards (selection)
- 1989 - Hennessy First Fiction Award
- 1989 - New Irish Writer of the Year
- 1990 - Time Out Travel Writing Prize
- 2011 - Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Ghost Light
- 2012 - Irish PEN Award
- 2019 - Irish Book Award for Shadowplay = "Eason Novel of the Year"
Works (selection)
Novels and short stories
- Cowboys and Indians (novel, 1991)
- True Believers (Short Stories, 1991)
- Desperadoes (novel, 1994)
- The Salesman (novel, 1998)
- Inishowen (novel, 2000)
- Star of the Sea (novel, 2002)
- Redemption Falls (novel, 2007)
- Ghost Light (novel, 2010)
- Where Have You Been? (Short Stories, 2012)
- The Thrill of it All (Roman, 2014)
- Shadowplay (novel; Harvill Secker, London 2019, ISBN 9781787300842 )
Essays and non-fiction
- Even the Olives are Bleeding: The Life and Times of Charles Donnelly (Biography, 1993)
- The Secret World Of The Irish Male (collection of essays, 1994)
- The Irish Male at Home and Abroad (Essays, 1996)
- Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America (Travel Guide, 1996)
Pieces
- Red Roses and Petrol (1995)
- The Weeping of Angels (1998)
- True Believers (1999)
Scripts or templates
- A Stone of the Heart
- The Long Way Home
- Ailsa (1994)
- The Chosen Few (2000)
- Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
Works in German
- Cowboy and Indian. Roman , transl. by Gabriele Haefs . Ammann, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-250-10218-0
- Desperados. Roman , transl. by Gabriele Haefs. Ammann, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-250-10312-8
- The seller. Roman , transl. v. Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf-Allié. Ammann, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-250-10409-4
- Inishowen Blues. Roman , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-054010-7
- Roddy Doyle et al. a .: Yeats is dead! A very Irish novel , List, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-60325-4 (ed.)
- The passage. Roman , transl. by Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf-Allié. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-054012-3
- Where the heroes sleep , over. v. Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf-Allié. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-054016-4
- Wisp , trans. v. Manfred Allié. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-054018-8
- The wild ballad of loud life. Translated from the English by Malte Krutzsch. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002296-7 . (Original title: The thrill of it all ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph O'Connor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the author
- Joseph O'Connor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview on identitytheory.com , June 26, 2003
- Interview in The Independent , April 27, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ O'Connor, Joseph at Answers.com ; please scroll a little
- ↑ Joseph O'Connor on Irish Writers Online ( October 4, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive )
- ^ Joseph O'Connor at identitytheory.com
- ^ Joseph O'Connor at Aosdána , accessed February 22, 2018
- ↑ Shadowplay: Eason Novel of the Year 2019 - Winner , accessed November 21, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Connor, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |