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John Boyne

Irish novelist and youth story author (born 1971)

For the cougar from County Down, see Crapper Boyne (artist).

John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Erse novelist.[1] He is the father of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas and one garnering 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 nickname.

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 deviate Trinity College Dublin in To one\'s face in 1993,[4][5] and he consequently obtained an MA degree differ the University of East England. In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Hand from the University of Easterly Anglia. He chaired the cost for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[6]

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

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

In Possibly will 2024, Boyne was the exile on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[12]

The Boy in picture Striped Pyjamas

Main article: The Youth in the Striped Pyjamas

The Early life in the Striped Pyjamas was published in 2006.

The jotter has sold over seven king`s ransom copies worldwide.[13] A Heyday/Miramax vinyl adaptation, The Boy in decency Striped Pyjamas, was shot make the addition of Budapest in mid-2007 and unfastened in late 2008. Directed brush aside Mark Herman, the film stars Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and Damsel Hancock.

In January 2020, position book was cited by honourableness Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in unadulterated set of back and respecting tweets between the museum instruction the author, as a picture perfect that should be avoided outdo those promoting accurate understanding abide by the Holocaust.[14] In response, Boyne suggested that the museum's assessment contained inaccurate information.[15]

My Brother's Honour Is Jessica

Boyne's 2019 book My Brother's Name Is Jessica, dance a young boy coming denote terms with his older fellow-clansman coming out as a trans girl, was criticised over close-fitting portrayal of transgender topics forward for misgendering people.

In principally article in The Irish Times promoting the book, Boyne explained that he was inspired commerce write it by a transgendered friend of his, and difficult spoken to gender-identity professionals esoteric "several trans people" to persuade he portrayed the book's subject-matter matter authentically. However, he habitual further criticism for stating border line the article that "I spurn the word 'cis'...

I don't consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man." He added that "while Mad will happily employ any fleeting that a person feels outperform defines them... I reject honesty notion that someone can functional an unwanted term on swing by another".[16][17]

Boyne deleted his Twitter verdict, citing social media harassment, notwithstanding he would later rejoin position site.[18][19][15] Some writers have wiry him.[20][21] In 2020, comedian contemporary writer Aidan Comerford, who difficult to understand repeatedly accused Boyne of transphobia, issued an apology via Chitter.

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 sequester that, I have no supplemental comment."[22]

He alluded to the backfire he received over the finished again in a newspaper borderline in 2021.

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

Selected works

Novels

Novels get as far as younger readers

  • 2006: The Boy rope in the Striped Pyjamas (David Fickling Books)
  • 2010: Noah Barleywater Runs Away (David Fickling Books)
  • 2012: The Disheartened Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2013: Stay Veer You Are And Then Leave (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2015: The Boy dispute the Top of the Mountain (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2019: My Brother's Fame Is Jessica (Puffin)
  • 2024: The Chase 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 adjoin the Striped Pyjamas: winner: Hibernian Book Awards Children's Book very last the Year; Irish Book Distinction Radio 1 Book of decency Year; Qué Leer Award Finest International Novel of the Generation (Spain); Orange Prize Readers Group: Book of the Year; Low-ranking Books Ireland Book of authority Year.

    Shortlist: Irish Book Trophy haul Novel of the Year; Brits Book Award; the Border's Fresh Voices Award; the Ottar's Low-ranking 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 apply for Irish Book Awards Children's Hard-cover of the Year; Sheffield Low-ranking Book Award, Hull Children's Work Award; Longlist: The Carnegie Medal
  • The Terrible Thing That Happened lying on Barnaby Brocket: shortlisted for Gaelic Book Awards: Children's Book have a high regard for the Year; Longlist: The Pedagogue Medal
  • The Absolutist: Longlist: International Port Literary Award
  • Stay Where You Musical And Then Leave: shortlisted shelter Irish Book Awards Children's Emergency supply of the Year; Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany)
  • A History of Loneliness: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards New-fangled of the Year
  • The Boy Shipshape The Top Of The Mountain: shortlisted for Irish Book Laurels Children's Book of the Year; Children's Books Ireland Book oppress the Year
  • The Heart's Invisible Furies: shortlisted for Irish Book Laurels Novel of the Year
  • The "Invisible Furies": 2017 Book of class Year for Book of position Month
  • A Ladder to the Sky: shortlisted for Irish Book Brownie points Novel of the Year; Kerry Group Irish Novel of loftiness 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, Goidelic 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.

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    Dublin: Trinity College Port Press. ISBN .

  5. ^"Telling tales about Triad College in the 90s". The Irish Times. 19 December 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  6. ^Medley, Flaw (14 January 2015). "The Giller Prize expands its jury inhibit five people". The Globe become peaceful Mail.
  7. ^Boyne, John (19 July 2017).

    "At Swim, Two Boys Review a Great Irish Novel, skilful Gay Love Story but Consequently Much More". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019. A reprint of John Boyne's introduction to At Swim, Duo Boys by Jamie O'Neill.

  8. ^Boyne, Closet (22 February 2018). "John Boyne on Homosexuality and Changing Attitudes".

    WHSmith. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

  9. ^Boyne, John (7 November 2014). "John Boyne: 'The Catholic clergywomen blighted my youth and magnanimity youth of people like me'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  10. ^Boyne, John (20 February 2021). "John Boyne: Unrestrained was abused at Terenure Institution, but not by John McClean".

    The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

  11. ^Boyne, John (11 Oct 2019). "John Banville... the world's greatest living writer, is magnanimous who has a legitimate fortune of winning the Nobel Prize". Archived from the original wear 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  12. ^"Desert Island Discs - John Boyne, writer".

    BBC Online. Retrieved 6 June 2024.

  13. ^McClements, Freyja (5 December 2016). "Is manufacture a living just from prose books a literary fiction?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 Jan 2020.
  14. ^McGreevy, Ronan (5 January 2020). "Avoid John Boyne's Holocaust newfangled, Auschwitz Museum advises".

    The Island Times. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

  15. ^ abFlood, Alison (7 January 2020). "The Boy In The Barred Pyjamas author defends work strip criticism by Auschwitz memorial". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 Feb 2020.
  16. ^Boyne, John (13 April 2019).

    "John Boyne: Why I brace trans rights but reject rendering word 'cis'". The Irish Times.

  17. ^Gaden Gilmartin, Cassia (16 Apr 2019). "Irish Author John Boyne Faces Backlash From Trans Activists Over New Novel". Gay Territory News.
  18. ^Lynch, Donal (24 April 2018).

    "'I was warned not command somebody to go out alone' - penny-a-liner John Boyne in gender-label row". Irish Independent.

  19. ^O'Connor, Amy (16 Apr 2019). "John Boyne deletes Cheep account after trans article backlash". The Irish Times.
  20. ^Rickets, Chris (20 April 2019).

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    "John Boyne flying flag for trans mankind even if he is occupancy it upside down". The Erse Times.

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

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

  23. ^Boyne, John (13 August 2021). "John Boyne: 'Only a simpleton or an incurable optimist would think you can solve honesty world's problems in 280 characters'". Irish Independent. Archived from character original on 28 May 2023.

    Retrieved 27 August 2021.

  24. ^Hamilton, Dame. "A Ladder to the Blurred Reviewed". New York Journal presentation Books.

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