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Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. He has written thirteen books, including five previous novels: Cowboys and Indians, Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen and most recently Star of the Sea, which became an international bestseller, winning the Irish Post Award for Literature, an American Library Association Award, France's Prix Millepages and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. His work has been published in twenty-nine languages.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Series
Irish Male trilogy
1. The Secret World of the Irish Male (1994)
2. The Irish Male at Home and Abroad (1996)
3. The Last of the Irish Males (2001)
The Irish Male: His Greatest Hits (2009)
The Shorter Irish Male (2011)
1. The Secret World of the Irish Male (1994)
2. The Irish Male at Home and Abroad (1996)
3. The Last of the Irish Males (2001)
The Irish Male: His Greatest Hits (2009)
The Shorter Irish Male (2011)
Novels
Cowboys and Indians (1991)
Desperadoes (1994)
The Salesman (1998)
Inishowen (2000)
Yeats is Dead! (2001) (with Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Hugo Hamilton, Marian Keyes, Frank McCourt, Pauline McLynn and Conor McPherson)
The Star of the Sea (2002)
Redemption Falls (2007)
Ghost Light (2010)
The Thrill of it All (2014)
Shadowplay (2019)
Desperadoes (1994)
The Salesman (1998)
Inishowen (2000)
Yeats is Dead! (2001) (with Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Hugo Hamilton, Marian Keyes, Frank McCourt, Pauline McLynn and Conor McPherson)
The Star of the Sea (2002)
Redemption Falls (2007)
Ghost Light (2010)
The Thrill of it All (2014)
Shadowplay (2019)
Collections
Series contributed to
Finbar's Hotel (with Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston and Colm Tóibín)
Finbar's Hotel (1997)
Finbar's Hotel (1997)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Awards
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Joseph O'Connor recommends
Swallowing the Sun (2004)
David Park
"Wrenchingly affecting ... Flawed, brilliant, knotty, uncompromising, this is not an easy novel, but it is an important and beautiful one."
Hellfire (2006)
Mia Gallagher
"An audacious and wonderfully skilled writer... a novel of many pleasures."
The Companion (2007)
Lorcan Roche
"Lorcan Roche is a fresh and vivid voice in new Irish fiction. I love the energy of his writing and its passionate engagement with the world. He is a gifted and clever storyteller."
The Brothers' Lot (2011)
Kevin Holohan
"A memorable, skillfully wrought, and evocative satire of an Ireland that has collapsed under the weight of its contradictions."
A Line Made By Walking (2017)
Sara Baume
"After a remarkable and deservedly award-winning debut, here is a novel of uniqueness, wonder, recognition, poignancy, truth-speaking, quiet power, strange beauty and luminous bedazzlement. Once again, I’ve been Baumed."
Last Ones Left Alive (2019)
Sarah Davis-Goff
"A debut novel of jaw-dropping skill and immense power, a shimmering dystopian vision but also a lucid meditation on tenderness, intimacy and courage. From the get-go it gripped me, and since the last page I've been haunted."
Our Little Cruelties (2020)
Liz Nugent
"Evocative, vivid, brilliant storytelling from a novelist of powerful gifts."
Pilgrims (2020)
Matthew Kneale
"An enthralling and wonderfully vivid novel from a master storyteller."
Nora (2021)
Nuala O'Connor
"An exceptional novel by one of the most brilliant contemporary Irish writers."
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