John Boyne

Raised in Dublin’s middle-class environment, he attended the Carmelite-run Terenure College before earning a BA in English at Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where Malcolm Bradbury mentored him; an honorary Doctor of Letters from UEA followed in 2015. A short story published in the Sunday Tribune earned a Hennessy Literary Award shortlist in 1… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources