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Joseph O'Neill is an
Irish
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novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel ''
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'' was awarded the 2009
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Early life
Joseph O'Neill was born in
Cork
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, Ireland, on 23 February 1964.
He is of half-
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and half-Turkish ancestry.
O'Neill's parents moved around much in O'Neill's youth: O'Neill spent time in
Mozambique
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as a toddler and in
Turkey
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until the age of four, and he also lived in
Iran
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.
From the age of six, O'Neill lived in
the Netherlands
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, where he attended the
Lycée français de La Haye and the
British School in the Netherlands
The British School in the Netherlands (BSN) is an IB-classified group of independent schools situated in The Hague area. There are five campuses that together form one school: BSN Senior School Voorschoten, BSN Junior School Leidschenveen, BSN J ...
. He read law at
Girton College
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,
Cambridge
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, 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
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in 1987, he spent a year writing his first novel. O'Neill then entered full-time practice as a
barrister
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in London, principally in the field of business law. Since 1998 he has lived in New York City.
Career
Writing
O'Neill is the author of four novels. ''
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'' was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the ''
New York Times Book Review
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'', 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". It was also included in ''
The New York Times
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'' list of the ''10 Best Books of 2008''. Literary critic
James Wood called it "one of the most remarkable
postcolonial
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books I have ever read". In an interview with the
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in June 2009, US President
Barack Obama
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revealed that he was reading it, describing it as "an excellent novel."
Among the books on the longlist, it was the favourite to win the
Man Booker Prize
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. However, on 9 September 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced, and the novel failed to make the list. The book received the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2009 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
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
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His latest novel, ''The Dog'', released in September 2014, was longlisted for the
Man Booker Prize
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for Fiction and named a Notable Book of 2014 by ''The New York Times''.
His short stories have appeared in the ''New Yorker'' and in ''Harper's'' magazine. Others have been anthologized in:
*''New Irish Short Stories'' (ed. Joseph O'Connor) (Faber & Faber) (2011)
*''Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories'' (ed. David Marcus) (Faber & Faber) (2007)
*''Dislocation: Stories from a New Ireland'' (ed. Caroline Walsh) (Carroll & Graf) (2003)
*''Phoenix Irish Short Stories'' (ed. David Marcus) (Phoenix) (1999)
In 2019, O'Neill began to publish political essays in the ''
New York Review of Books
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''. He has also written literary and cultural criticism, notably for ''
The Atlantic Monthly
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''.
Teaching
He is the distinguished visiting professor of written arts at
Bard College
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.
Personal life
O'Neill speaks English, French and
Dutch
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He played club cricket in the Netherlands and the UK, and has played for many years at the
Staten Island Cricket Club
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, much like his ''Netherland'' protagonist Hans.
His love of cricket continues and he is an active player ().
In an interview with ''
The Paris Review
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'' 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."
Bibliography
Novels
*''This Is the Life'' (Faber & Faber; Farrar Straus & Giroux) (1991)
*''The Breezes'' (Faber & Faber) (1996)
*''
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'' (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2008)
*''The Dog'' (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2014)
Short fiction
;Collections
*''Good Trouble'' (2018)
;Stories
*"Pardon Edward Snowden" ''The New Yorker,'' 12 December 2016
*"The Trusted Traveler" ''Harper's'', 20 May 2016
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Non-fiction
''The Ascent of Man''(''Granta'', issue 72, Winter 2000)
*''Blood-Dark Track: A Family History'' (Granta Books) (2001)
Book reviews
References
External links
*"The Dubai Gesture", by John Banville, ''
The New York Review of Books
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'', 19 March 2015. Review of ''The Dog''.
"Post 9/11, a New York of Gatsby-Size Dreams and Loss" by Michiko Kakutani, ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', 16 May 2008. Review of ''
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''.
"Pen in One Hand, Cricket Bat in the Other" by Charles McGrath, ''
The New York Times
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'', 17 May 2008. Article on O'Neill.
"What Did You Do in the War?" by Colin Harrison, ''
The New York Times
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'', 17 February 2002. Review of ''Blood-Dark Track''.
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Living people
1964 births
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Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
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Irish literary critics
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Irish male poets
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Irish people of Turkish descent
Irish poets
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
Writers from Cork (city)
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