John Boyne

LGBTQ+ prize cancelled after backlash over Irish author's views

The organisers of the 2025 Polari Prize, a prominent literary award celebrating LGBTQ+ literature from writers born or based in the UK and Ireland, have paused this year's competition following widespread backlash over the inclusion of author John Boyne.

Seven Irish authors on longlist for Dublin Literary Award 2025

Seven Irish authors have made the longlist of 71 books nominated for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

John Boyne to publish Boy in the Striped Pyjamas sequel

The Echo Chamber - John Boyne's new novel reviewed

Review: John Boyne's Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

Aoife O'regan was impressed by the philosophical nature of John Boyne's new novel and its ambitious scope, spanning multiple timelines and locations around the world.

Watch: Arena live at the International Literature Festival Dublin

John Boyne, Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Caroline Bergvall live from Liberty Hall

Reviewed: My Brother's Name is Jessica by John Boyne

I think this book can help start conversations, and (hopefully) lead people onto transgender authors, writes Eileen Dunne of John Boyne's latest novel, My Brother's Name is Jessica.

Watch: Sebastian Barry & John Boyne in conversation

The Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking: what is writing?

Reviewed: A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

If backstabbing delight is your bedtime reading of choice then there'll be a fair few early nights in a row with John Boyne's latest.

Do creative writing courses work? The RTÉ Book Show returns

For the past few years, The Book Show has interviewed hundreds of writers for the show. Now the writers get to ask the questions.

Reviewed: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Who is he? This is the central, burning question concerning the character Cyril Avery in John Boyne's ambitious The Heart's Invisible Furies, now out in paperback and in the charts. Avril Hoare was enthralled.

Rick O'Shea's Best Books Of 2017

I'm glad to finally put together the books from 2017 that I think you should read, along with a short review of each.

Fury Road: John Boyne on bringing it all back home

John Boyne's novel, The Heart's Invisible Furies is a vivid portrait of a man in search of identity in Dublin, Amsterdam and the USA, but it's also "about how Irish people took their own lives back from a dominant institution,' according to its author.