John Boyne: Quick Facts


Facts

Born April 30, 1971 (age 55) • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works “All the Broken Places” • “Crippen” • “Stay Where You Are & Then Leave” • “The Absolutist” • “The Boy at the Top of the Mountain” • “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” • “The Echo Chamber” • “The Heart’s Invisible Furies” • “The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket” • “The Thief of Time”

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Michael Banim
Irish author
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John Banim
Irish author
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Colm Toibin stands in a narrow cobblestone alleyway in Mantova, Italy, wearing a gray jacket and black shirt with his hands in his pockets.
Colm Tóibín
Irish author
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle
Irish writer
John Banville
John Banville
Irish writer
Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien
Irish author
Portrait of Bram Stoker seated in a chair, wearing a dark suit and vest, with a trimmed beard and mustache, facing slightly to his left against a plain background.
Bram Stoker
Irish writer
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author
George Moore, 1908.
George Moore
Irish writer
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Brendan Behan
Irish author
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Sean O’Faolain
Irish author
Maria Edgeworth, detail of an engraving by Alonzo Chappel, 1873
Maria Edgeworth
Anglo-Irish author
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
British author