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 four novels. Netherland 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 also 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]

He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Good Trouble (2018) and 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.

His latest novel, The Dog, released in September 2014, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction[14] and named a Notable Book of 2014 by The New York Times.[15]

His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and in Harper's magazine. Others have been anthologized in:

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

Teaching

He is the distinguished visiting professor of written arts at Bard College.[16]

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.[17] His love of cricket continues and he is an active player .[18] 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, and so I have little option but to seek out dramatic situations that I might have a chance of understanding."[19]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Stories[21]
width=25%TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
The Referees2014
The Sinking of the Houston2017

Non-fiction

Book reviews

Yearclass='unsortable'Review articleclass='unsortable'Work(s) reviewed
2009Book: Gooch, Brad . Brad Gooch . Flannery. 2008 . Little, Brown and Co. . 9780316000666 . registration .

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. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Joseph+O%27Neill%27s+Netherland+wins+Kerry+Group+Irish+Fiction+Award+2009.-a0200734571 "Joseph O'Neill's Netherland wins Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2009"
  14. News: Man Booker Prize longlists Dubai-based The Dog by Joseph O'Neill . 24 July 2014 . The National . UAE . 22 January 2019.
  15. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2014.html?_r=0 "100 Notable Books of 2014"
  16. Web site: Bard Division of Languages and Literature Events Faculty at Bard College.
  17. Web site: Joseph O'Neill: 'I wasn't disappointed' . The Daily Telegraph. London . 9 February 2009 . 16 June 2015 . Leonard, Tom.
  18. The Essentials. Go, Ireland . The Cricket Monthly ESPN Cricinfo . June 2015 .
  19. Web site: Nothing Happened: An Interview with Joseph O'Neill. Paris Review Daily. 2014-10-03. 2016-01-10. Jonathan. Lee.
  20. Wood, Heloise, "Fourth Estate signs O'Neill's contemporary political stories", The Bookseller, 23 October 2017.
  21. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  22. O'Neill, Joseph, "Pardon Edward Snowden", The New Yorker, 5 December 2016.
  23. News: The Trusted Traveler . Joseph . O’Neill . February 2016 . Harper's Magazine . 13 December 2018 .

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