Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964) explained

Joseph O'Neill
Birth Date:23 February 1964
Birth Place:Cork, Ireland
Occupation:lawyer, fiction writer, cultural critic
Period:1991–present
Notable Works:Netherland

Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction[1] and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.[2]

Early life

Joseph O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, on 23 February 1964.[3] [4] He is of half-Irish and half-Turkish ancestry.[5]

O'Neill's parents moved around much in O'Neill's youth: O'Neill spent time in Mozambique as a toddler and in Turkey until the age of four, and he also lived in Iran.[4] From the age of six, O'Neill lived in the Netherlands, where he attended the Lycée français de La Haye and the British School in the Netherlands. He read law at Girton College, Cambridge, preferring it over English because "literature was too precious" and he wanted it to remain a hobby. O'Neill started off his literary career in poetry but had turned away from it by the age of 24. After being called to the English Bar in 1987, he spent a year writing his first novel. O'Neill then entered full-time practice as a barrister in London, principally in the field of business law.[6] Since 1998 he has lived in New York City.

Career

Writing

O'Neill is the author of five novels. He is best known for Netherland, which was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was called "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell".[7] It was included in The New York Times list of the 10 Best Books of 2008.[8] Literary critic James Wood called it "one of the most remarkable postcolonial books I have ever read". In an interview with the BBC in June 2009, US President Barack Obama revealed that he was reading it, describing it as "an excellent novel."[9]

Among the books on the longlist, it was the favourite to win the Man Booker Prize.[10] However, on 9 September 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced, and the novel failed to make the list.[11] The book received the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction[12] and the 2009 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.[13] It was shortlisted for the Impac Prize, then the world's richest literary award.[14]

His next novel, The Dog (2014), was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction,[15] named a Notable Book of 2014 by The New York Times,[16] and shortlisted for the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.[17] His most recent novel, Godwin, was published in June 2024.

O'Neill is also the author of a collection of short stories, Good Trouble (2018), most of which first appeared in the New Yorker or Harper's magazine. Two of his stories have been awarded an O. Henry prize.[18] [19] Others have been anthologized in:

O'Neill has also written a non-fiction book, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a Book of the Year for the Economist and the Irish Times.

In 2019, O'Neill began to publish political essays in the New York Review of Books.[20] He has also written literary and cultural criticism, notably for The Atlantic Monthly.

Teaching

He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Written Arts at Bard College.[21]

Personal life

O'Neill speaks English, French and Dutch.[4] He played club cricket in the Netherlands and the UK, and has played for many years at the Staten Island Cricket Club, much like his Netherland protagonist Hans.[22] His love of cricket continues and he is an active player .[23] In an interview with The Paris Review in 2014 O'Neill said, explaining his interest in writing about Dubai in The Dog, "I’ve moved around so much and lived in so many different places that I don’t really belong to a particular place."[24]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Selected Stories

Non-fiction

Introductory Essays
Selected Personal Writing

Selected Critical Writings

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022600006.html?hpid=moreheadlines PEN/Faulkner Award Goes to Joseph O'Neill, The Washington Post, 26 February 2009
  2. News: 'Netherland' by Joseph O'Neill wins €15,000 Kerry Group fiction prize. .
  3. Joseph O'Neill, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010) p15
  4. Web site: The Elegant Variation – The Joseph O'Neill Interview . The Elegant Variation . Mark Sarvas . Mark Sarvas . July 2009 . 7 February 2013.
  5. Web site: Joseph O'Neill, The New Immigrant Experience. NPR. 26 November 2008.
  6. http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2009/07/interview-with-joseph-oneill-part-3.html "Interview with Joseph O'Neill – Part 3"
  7. News: The Ashes. Garner. Dwight. The New York Times. 18 May 2008.
  8. News: The 10 Best Books of 2008 . The New York Times. 3 December 2008 . 7 May 2010.
  9. News: Obama Interview: the transcript. Webb. Justin. BBC. 2 June 2009.
  10. News: Perfect delivery . The Guardian. 7 September 2008 . London . Andrew . Anthony . 7 May 2010.
  11. News: Booker Prize Shortlist Is Announced . The New York Times. 9 September 2008 . Julie . Bosman . 7 May 2010.
  12. Web site: Past Winners & Finalists | PEN / Faulkner Foundation . 20 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131221031240/http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/past-award-winners-finalists/ . 21 December 2013 . dead .
  13. Web site: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland wins Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2009. - Free Online Library . 2024-10-17 . www.thefreelibrary.com.
  14. News: Lea . Richard . 2010-04-12 . Impac shortlist led by Joseph O'Neill and Marilynne Robinson . 2024-10-17 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  15. News: Man Booker Prize longlists Dubai-based The Dog by Joseph O'Neill . 24 July 2014 . The National . UAE . 22 January 2019.
  16. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2014.html?_r=0 "100 Notable Books of 2014"
  17. News: Wodehouse pri ze for comic fiction 2015 shortlist announced . The Guardian . 30 March 2015 . Deans . Jason .
  18. Web site: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017: 9780525432500 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2024-10-17 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  19. Web site: 2022-04-04 . Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction . 2024-10-17 . Literary Hub . en-US.
  20. Web site: Joseph O'Neill . 2024-10-17 . The New York Review of Books . en.
  21. Web site: Bard Division of Languages and Literature Events Faculty at Bard College.
  22. Web site: Joseph O'Neill: 'I wasn't disappointed' . The Daily Telegraph. London . 9 February 2009 . 16 June 2015 . Leonard, Tom.
  23. The Essentials. Go, Ireland . The Cricket Monthly ESPN Cricinfo . June 2015 .
  24. Web site: Nothing Happened: An Interview with Joseph O'Neill. Paris Review Daily. 2014-10-03. 2016-01-10. Jonathan. Lee.
  25. Web site: Fourth Estate signs O'Neill's contemporary political stories . 2024-10-17 . The Bookseller . En.
  26. O’Neill . Joseph . 2024-03-11 . "The Time Being," by Joseph O'Neill . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  27. O’Neill . Joseph . 2020-09-28 . "Rainbows" . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  28. O’Neill . Joseph . 2019-11-04 . "The Flier" . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  29. O’Neill . Joseph . 2018-06-25 . "The First World" . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  30. O’Neill . Joseph . 2018-03-05 . "The Poltroon Husband" . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  31. O’Neill . Joseph . 2017-10-23 . "The Sinking of the Houston" . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  32. https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/the-mustache-in-2010/
  33. O’Neill . Joseph . 2016-12-04 . "Pardon Edward Snowden" . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  34. The Trusted Traveler . Joseph . O’Neill . February 2016 . Harper's Magazine . 13 December 2018 .
  35. O’Neill . Joseph . 2016-08-01 . Memories of Trump's Wedding . 2024-10-17 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  36. News: O’Neill . Joseph . 2009-08-01 . The Relevance of Cosmopolitanism . 2024-10-17 . The Atlantic . en . 2151-9463.
  37. Web site: 2009-01-29 . Why Updike Matters . 2024-10-17 . Granta . en-US.

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