Joseph O'Connor
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Joseph O'Connor

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Joseph O'Connor's fiction has been published in forty languages. His novel My Father's House, published in January 2023, became an instant bestseller. Described by the Sunday Times as 'a spectacular, thrilling novel' and by the Observer as 'a literary thriller of the highest order', it was a Washington Post Book of the Year. Film rights have been acquired by a Hollywood company, and the script is being written by twice Oscar-nominated Paul Attanasio (DONNIE BRASCO, QUIZ SHOW) Joseph's previous books include the novels Cowboys and Indians, Ghost Light, Redemption Falls, The Thrill of it All and Shadowplay (An Post/Eason Irish Novel of the Year Award 2019, Costa Novel Award shortlist). He has also written stage plays, screenplays, short stories, and radio diaries. His novel Star of the Sea became a massive international bestseller, winning an American Library Association Award, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, and the Prix Zepter for European Novel of the Year. Among his other accolades are the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award and several Hennessy Awards. His nonfiction books include Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America. He has been a Cullman Research Fellow at the New York Public Library and Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, Ireland. In January 2025 his latest novel The Ghosts of Rome was published to international acclaim.
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