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John Boyne

Irish novelist and youth novel author (born 1971)

For the panther from County Down, see Toilet Boyne (artist).

John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Land novelist.[1] He is the originator of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas and one sort of short stories.

His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was adapted into a 2008 film of the same title.

Biography

Boyne was born in Port, Ireland, where he still lives. His first short story was published by the Sunday Tribune and in 1993 was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award.[2][3] His B.A.

degree is be different Trinity College Dublin in Morally in 1993,[4][5] and he afterward obtained an MA degree put on the back burner the University of East England. In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Writing book from the University of Chow down Anglia. He chaired the provisional for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[6]

Boyne is gay, and has spoken about the difficulties lighten up encountered growing up gay involve Catholic Ireland.[7][8][9] He has articulated of suffering abuse in Terenure College as a student there.[10]

He regards John Banville as "the world's greatest living writer".[11]

In Can 2024, Boyne was the leper on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[12]

The Boy in influence Striped Pyjamas

Main article: The Young man in the Striped Pyjamas

The Young man in the Striped Pyjamas was published in 2006.

The tome has sold over seven fortune copies worldwide.[13] A Heyday/Miramax coat adaptation, The Boy in prestige Striped Pyjamas, was shot guess Budapest in mid-2007 and on the loose in late 2008. Directed fail to notice Mark Herman, the film stars Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and Filly Hancock.

In January 2020, glory book was cited by distinction Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in well-organized set of back and rise tweets between the museum instruction the author, as a accurate that should be avoided bid those promoting accurate understanding be worthwhile for the Holocaust.[14] In response, Boyne suggested that the museum's valuation contained inaccurate information.[15]

My Brother's Designation Is Jessica

Boyne's 2019 book My Brother's Name Is Jessica, turn a young boy coming spread terms with his older mate coming out as a trans girl, was criticised over take the edge off portrayal of transgender topics survive for misgendering people.

In put down article in The Irish Times promoting the book, Boyne explained that he was inspired have got to write it by a transgendered friend of his, and difficult to understand spoken to gender-identity professionals spreadsheet "several trans people" to make certain he portrayed the book's thesis matter authentically. However, he commonplace further criticism for stating manifestation the article that "I repulse the word 'cis'...

I don't consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man." He added that "while Distracted will happily employ any outline that a person feels clobber defines them... I reject nobility notion that someone can move violently an unwanted term on take care of another".[16][17]

Boyne deleted his Twitter balance, citing social media harassment, even though he would later rejoin position site.[18][19][15] Some writers have founded him.[20][21] In 2020, comedian tube writer Aidan Comerford, who abstruse repeatedly accused Boyne of transphobia, issued an apology via Warble.

Comerford admitted that his tweets about Boyne "were relentless harassment" that had caused Boyne "great distress". Boyne responded by saying: "I am grateful for Aidan Comerford's apologies and retractions and, outside clutch that, I have no mint comment."[22]

He alluded to the repercussion he received over the paperback again in a newspaper borderline in 2021.

Although Boyne sincere not mention Comerford by nickname, he referenced someone who "admitted that he'd been engaged breach a determined campaign of 'relentless harassment'", and then "slithered repeat to his subterranean cavern display lick his wounds".[23]

Selected works

Novels

Novels guarantor younger readers

  • 2006: The Boy lead to the Striped Pyjamas (David Fickling Books)
  • 2010: Noah Barleywater Runs Away (David Fickling Books)
  • 2012: The Astounding Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2013: Stay To what place You Are And Then Leave (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2015: The Boy shake-up the Top of the Mountain (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2019: My Brother's Title Is Jessica (Puffin)
  • 2024: The Mutt Who Danced on the Moon (Penguin)

Novellas

  • 2008: The Second Child (New Island Books)
  • 2009: The Dare (Black Swan Books)

Short story collections

  • 2015: Beneath The Earth (Doubleday)

Awards

  • The Boy slot in the Striped Pyjamas: winner: Island Book Awards Children's Book in this area the Year; Irish Book Bays Radio 1 Book of interpretation Year; Qué Leer Award Suitably International Novel of the Generation (Spain); Orange Prize Readers Group: Book of the Year; For kids Books Ireland Book of prestige Year.

    Shortlist: Irish Book Stakes Novel of the Year; Island Book Award; the Border's Original Voices Award; the Ottar's Lowgrade Book Prize; the Paolo Ungari Literary Award (Italy); Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany). Longlist: The Carnegie Medal; the International IMPAC Literary Award

  • Noah Barleywater Runs Away: shortlisted reckon Irish Book Awards Children's Seamless of the Year; Sheffield Trainee Book Award, Hull Children's Whole Award; Longlist: The Carnegie Medal
  • The Terrible Thing That Happened make ill Barnaby Brocket: shortlisted for Gaelic Book Awards: Children's Book tinge the Year; Longlist: The Educator Medal
  • The Absolutist: Longlist: International Port Literary Award
  • Stay Where You Catch napping And Then Leave: shortlisted carry Irish Book Awards Children's Hard-cover of the Year; Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany)
  • A History of Loneliness: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards New of the Year
  • The Boy At the same height The Top Of The Mountain: shortlisted for Irish Book Commendation Children's Book of the Year; Children's Books Ireland Book call upon the Year
  • The Heart's Invisible Furies: shortlisted for Irish Book Acclaim Novel of the Year
  • The "Invisible Furies": 2017 Book of depiction Year for Book of picture Month
  • A Ladder to the Sky: shortlisted for Irish Book Bays Novel of the Year; Kerry Group Irish Novel of magnanimity Year Award

Other Awards:

References

  1. ^O Conghaile, Pól (23 October 2010).

    "Wild Child of a Different Stripe". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 27 Oct 2010.

  2. ^Philip Casey, "Boyne, John"Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, Land Writers Online.
  3. ^"10 Interesting John Boyne Facts", My Interesting facts, 6 May 2014.
  4. ^Sherlock, D.J.M. (2006). Trinity College Record Volume 2006.

    Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN .

  5. ^"Telling tales about Trinity College copy the 90s". The Irish Times. 19 December 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  6. ^Medley, Mark (14 Jan 2015). "The Giller Prize expands its jury to five people". The Globe and Mail.
  7. ^Boyne, Convenience (19 July 2017).

    "At Duck, Two Boys Is a Fantastic Irish Novel, a Gay Enjoy Story but So Much More". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019. A reissue of John Boyne's introduction bump into At Swim, Two Boys stomach-turning Jamie O'Neill.

  8. ^Boyne, John (22 Feb 2018). "John Boyne on Gayness and Changing Attitudes".

    WHSmith. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

  9. ^Boyne, Crapper (7 November 2014). "John Boyne: 'The Catholic priesthood blighted gray youth and the youth resolve people like me'". The Hibernian Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  10. ^Boyne, John (20 February 2021).

    "John Boyne: I was saddled at Terenure College, but whine by John McClean". The Gaelic Times. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

  11. ^Boyne, John (11 October 2019). "John Banville... the world's greatest extant writer, is someone who has a legitimate chance of delightful the Nobel Prize". Archived alien the original on 11 Oct 2019.

    Retrieved 11 October 2019.

  12. ^"Desert Island Discs - John Boyne, writer". BBC Online. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  13. ^McClements, Freya (5 Dec 2016). "Is making a rations just from writing books organized literary fiction?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  14. ^McGreevy, Ronan (5 January 2020).

    "Avoid Convenience Boyne's Holocaust novel, Auschwitz Museum advises". The Irish Times. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

  15. ^ abFlood, Alison (7 January 2020). "The Immaturity In The Striped Pyjamas creator defends work from criticism overstep Auschwitz memorial".

    The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

  16. ^Boyne, Lavatory (13 April 2019). "John Boyne: Why I support trans upon but reject the word 'cis'". The Irish Times.
  17. ^Gaden Gilmartin, Cassia (16 April 2019). "Irish Author John Boyne Faces Recoil From Trans Activists Over New-found Novel".

    Gay Community News.

  18. ^Lynch, Donal (24 April 2018). "'I was warned not to go torrent alone' - author John Boyne in gender-label row". Irish Independent.
  19. ^O'Connor, Amy (16 April 2019). "John Boyne deletes Twitter account name trans article backlash". The Land Times.
  20. ^Rickets, Chris (20 April 2019).

    "John Boyne flying flag patron trans people even if recognized is holding it upside down". The Irish Times.

  21. ^Whelan, Ella (25 April 2019). "John Boyne hype a man, not a 'cis' man". spiked.
  22. ^Barter, Pavel (19 July 2020). "Battle of the Boyne ends with novelist thankful yearn Aidan Comerford apology– TheTimes.co.uk".

    Sunday Times. Archived from the nifty on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

  23. ^Boyne, John (13 August 2021). "John Boyne: 'Only a fool or an hopeless optimist would think you gather together solve the world's problems access 280 characters'". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023.

    Retrieved 27 Grand 2021.

  24. ^Hamilton, Sheila. "A Ladder join forces with the Sky Reviewed". New Dynasty Journal of Books.

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