John Boyne

John Boyne was born in Dublin and studied English Literature at Trinity College. In 1995, he completed a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. Boyne's first three novels are The Thief of Time (2000), The Congress of Rough Riders (2001) and Crippen (2004). Several of his children's stories have been televised or adapted for radio. Boyne's fourth novel, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2006), has become a worldwide bestseller translated into more than 38 languages. It won the Irish Book Awards as well as the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award and has been adapted for the cinema by director Mark Herman. Boyne's latest novels are Next of Kin, published in October 2006, and Mutiny on the Bounty (2008). John Boyne's latest novel is A History of Loneliness (2014). For more information about John Boyne, please visit www.johnboyne.com.