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== Controversy ==
== Controversy ==
His 2019 book ''My Brother's Name is Jessica'', about a trans girl, was criticised over its portrayal of [[transgender]] topics, for [[misgendering]] people and [[cis privilege]], such as how he rejects the term "[[Cisgender|cis]]", and wants to debate [[transgender rights]].<ref>{{cite newspaper|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-why-i-support-trans-rights-but-reject-the-word-cis-1.3843005|title=John Boyne: Why I support trans rights but reject the word ‘cis’|date=13 April 2019|last=Boyne|first=John|newspaper=The Irish Times|quote=I reject the word “cis” ... I don’t consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://gcn.ie/john-boyne-backlash-trans-novel/|newspaper=Gay Community News|title=Irish Author John Boyne Faces Backlash From Trans Activists Over New Novel|date=16 April 2019|first=Cassia|last=Gaden Gilmartin}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/whether-john-boyne-likes-it-or-not-he-is-a-cis-man-with-cis-privilege-1.3860808|title=‘Whether John Boyne likes it or not he is a cis man with cis privilege’|date=15 April 2019|first=Aoife|last=Martin}}</ref> He deleted his [[Twitter]] account, claiming social media harassment.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/i-was-warned-not-to-go-out-alone-author-john-boyne-in-genderlabel-row-38035355.html|title='I was warned not to go out alone' - author John Boyne in gender-label row|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=24 April 2018|first=Donal|last=Lynch}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-deletes-twitter-account-after-trans-article-backlash-1.3862249|title=John Boyne deletes Twitter account after trans article backlash|date=16 April 2019|first=Amy|last=O'Connor|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> Some Irish authors have supported him.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/john-boyne-flying-flag-for-trans-people-even-if-he-is-holding-it-upside-down-1.3863397|title=John Boyne flying flag for trans people even if he is holding it upside down|date=20 April 2019|first=Chris|last=Rickets|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>
His 2019 book ''My Brother's Name is Jessica'', about a trans girl, was criticised over its portrayal of [[transgender]] topics, for [[misgendering]] people and [[cis privilege]], such as how he rejects the term "[[Cisgender|cis]]", and wants to debate [[transgender rights]].<ref>{{cite newspaper|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-why-i-support-trans-rights-but-reject-the-word-cis-1.3843005|title=John Boyne: Why I support trans rights but reject the word ‘cis’|date=13 April 2019|last=Boyne|first=John|newspaper=The Irish Times|quote=I reject the word “cis” ... I don’t consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://gcn.ie/john-boyne-backlash-trans-novel/|newspaper=Gay Community News|title=Irish Author John Boyne Faces Backlash From Trans Activists Over New Novel|date=16 April 2019|first=Cassia|last=Gaden Gilmartin}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/whether-john-boyne-likes-it-or-not-he-is-a-cis-man-with-cis-privilege-1.3860808|title=‘Whether John Boyne likes it or not he is a cis man with cis privilege’|date=15 April 2019|first=Aoife|last=Martin}}</ref>


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For the painter from County Down, see John Boyne (artist).
John Boyne
Born (1971-04-30) 30 April 1971 (age 53)
Dublin, Ireland
Period2000–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable worksThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Absolutist
Website
johnboyne.com

John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist.[1] He is the author of eleven novels for adults and six novels for younger readers. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name.

Biography

Boyne was born in Dublin, where he still lives to this day. His first short story was published by the Sunday Tribune and in 1993 was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award.[2][3] A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA) and the University of East Anglia (MA), in 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia. He chaired the jury for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[4]

Boyne is gay, and has spoken about the difficulties he encountered growing up gay in Catholic Ireland.[5][6][7]

He regards John Banville as "the world's greatest living writer".[8]

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Main article: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was published in 2006. The book has sold over seven million copies worldwide.[9] A Heyday/Miramax film adaptation, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, was shot in Budapest in mid-2007 and released in late 2008. Directed by Mark Herman, the film stars Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and Sheila Hancock. In January 2020, the book was cited by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in a series of tweets between the museum and the author, as a book that should be avoided by those promoting accurate understanding of the Holocaust.[10]

Controversy

His 2019 book My Brother's Name is Jessica, about a trans girl, was criticised over its portrayal of transgender topics, for misgendering people and cis privilege, such as how he rejects the term "cis", and wants to debate transgender rights.[11][12][13]

Selected works

Novels

  • 2000: The Thief of Time (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • 2001: The Congress of Rough Riders (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • 2004: Crippen (Penguin)
  • 2006: Next of Kin (Penguin)
  • 2008: Mutiny on the Bounty (Doubleday)
  • 2009: The House of Special Purpose (Doubleday)
  • 2011: The Absolutist (Doubleday)
  • 2013: This House Is Haunted (Doubleday)
  • 2014: A History of Loneliness (Doubleday)
  • 2017: The Heart's Invisible Furies (Doubleday)
  • 2018: A Ladder To The Sky (Doubleday) [14]

Novels for younger readers

  • 2006: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (David Fickling Books)
  • 2010: Noah Barleywater Runs Away (David Fickling Books)
  • 2012: The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2013: Stay Where You Are And Then Leave (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2015: The Boy at the Top of the Mountain (Doubleday Children's)
  • 2019: My Brother's Name is Jessica (Puffin)

Short story collections

  • 2015: Beneath The Earth (Doubleday)

Awards

  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: winner: Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year; Irish Book Awards Radio 1 Book of the Year; Qué Leer Award Best International Novel of the Year (Spain); Orange Prize Readers Group: Book of the Year; Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year. Shortlist: Irish Book Award Novel of the Year; British Book Award; the Border's New Voices Award; the Ottar's Children's Book Prize; the Paolo Ungari Literary Award (Italy); Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany). Longlist: The Carnegie Medal; the International IMPAC Literary Award
  • Noah Barleywater Runs Away: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year; Sheffield Children's Book Award, Hull Children's Book Award; Longlist: The Carnegie Medal
  • The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year; Longlist: The Carnegie Medal
  • The Absolutist: Longlist: International Dublin Literary Award
  • Stay Where You Are And Then Leave: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year; Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany)
  • A History of Loneliness: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
  • The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year; Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year
  • The Heart's Invisible Furies: shortlisted for Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
  • "The Hearts Invisible Furies": 2017 Book of the Year for Book of the Month
  • "A Ladder to the Sky": shortlisted for Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year; Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award

Other Awards:

References

  1. ^ O Conghaile, Pól (23 October 2010). "Wild Child of a Different Stripe". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  2. ^ Philip Casey, "Boyne, John" Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Writers Online.
  3. ^ "10 Interesting John Boyne Facts", My Interesting facts, 6 May 2014.
  4. ^ "The Giller Prize expands its jury to five people ", The Globe and Mail, 14 Jan 2015.
  5. ^ Boyne, John (19 July 2017). "At Swim, Two Boys Is a Great Irish Novel, a Gay Love Story but So Much More". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019. As a young gay man behind a bookshop counter, I watched the people who bought At Swim, Two Boys—and there were a lot of them—and used it as a tool for flirtation. A reprint of John Boyne's introduction to At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill.
  6. ^ Boyne, John (22 February 2018). "John Boyne on Homosexuality and Changing Attitudes". WHSmith. Retrieved 1 February 2019. [...]not because I had any issue with being gay[...]
  7. ^ Boyne, John (7 November 2014). "John Boyne: 'The Catholic priesthood blighted my youth and the youth of people like me'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019. It's not easy to be a young, gay teenager[...]
  8. ^ Boyne, John (11 October 2019). "John Banville... the world's greatest living writer, is someone who has a legitimate chance of winning the Nobel Prize". Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  9. ^ McClements, Freya. "Is making a living just from writing books a literary fiction?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  10. ^ McGreevy, Ronan (5 January 2020). "Avoid John Boyne's Holocaust novel, Auschwitz Museum advises". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2020-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Boyne, John (13 April 2019). "John Boyne: Why I support trans rights but reject the word 'cis'". The Irish Times. I reject the word "cis" ... I don't consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man.
  12. ^ Gaden Gilmartin, Cassia (16 April 2019). "Irish Author John Boyne Faces Backlash From Trans Activists Over New Novel". Gay Community News.
  13. ^ Martin, Aoife (15 April 2019). "'Whether John Boyne likes it or not he is a cis man with cis privilege'".
  14. ^ "Reviewed by Sheila Hamilton in New York Journal of Books".
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