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 ( b. 1966 ). After his education at University College Dublin ( UCD) and the universities of Oxford and Leeds O'Connor initially worked with an Irish Sunday newspaper and the Esquire as a journalist, columnist and a critic before 1991 already his first novel Cowboys and Indians in the shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award came. Since then, O'Connor has published a number of novels, essays and plays, of which The Secret World Of The Irish Male, a collection of funny essays, Ireland became a bestseller. O'Connor was the spiritus rector ' and publisher of Yeats is Dead! , A serial novel of 15 Irish writers for Amnesty International, with contributions, among others by Roddy Doyle and Frank McCourt, and drove in 1997 next to Doyle, Enright, Hamilton, Johnston and Tóibín also contribute to Finbar 's Hotel by Dermot Bolger at.

O'Connor lived in New York, London, and for a short time in Nicaragua before he returned to Dublin, where he lives with his family.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Novels and 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)

Essays and nonfiction

  • 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)
  • Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America ( Travelogue 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 on German

  • Cowboy and Indians. Novel, trans. by Gabriele Haefs. Ammann, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-250-10218-0
  • Desperados. Novel, trans. by Gabriele Haefs. Ammann, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-250-10312-8
  • The seller. Novel, trans. v. Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf - Allié. Ammann, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-250-10409-4
  • Inishowen blues. Novel, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-054010-7
  • Roddy Doyle et al: Yeats is dead! A very Irish novel, List, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-60325-4 (ed.)
  • The crossing. Novel, trans. by Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf - Allié. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-054012-3
  • Where the heroes sleep, trans. v. Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf - Allié. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-054016-4
  • Irrlicht, trans. v. Manfred Allié. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-054018-8
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