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Joseph O'Connor

Biography

Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O’Connor’s STAR OF THE SEA was an international bestseller, a New York Times, Economist Notable Book of the Year and a Sunday Times #1 bestseller. It won France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of nine novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. SHADOWPLAY was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award.

Joseph O'Connor