The Book of Other People contains short stories by what Irish novelist?
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The Book of Other People The Book of Other People is a collection of short stories, published in 2008 by Penguin Books. Selected and edited by Zadie Smith, it contains 23 short stories by 23 different authors, among them Nick Hornby, David Mitchell, Colm Tóibín, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, as well as Smith herself. The collection, as evidenced by the title, focuses on character; the authors were simply asked to "make somebody up". It being a "charity anthology," the contributors to "The Book of Other People" were not compensated for their writing, and the book's proceeds were given to 826NYC, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students with their creative writing skills.
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Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín (] ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.
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Tales from Bective Bridge Tales from Bective Bridge is a collection of ten short stories concerning rural Ireland and its populace by the writer, Mary Lavin, born an American, who returned along with her family to Ireland in 1925.
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Ghosts (Banville novel) Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first novel since "The Book of Evidence" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works." This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.
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Desmond Fennell Desmond Carolan Fennell (born 1929) is an Irish writer, cultural philosopher and linguist, whose most frequent form of writing is the essay. Throughout his career Fennell has repeatedly departed from prevailing norms. In the 1950s and early 1960s, with his extensive foreign travel and reporting and his travel book "Mainly in Wonder", he departed from the norm of Irish Catholic writing at the time. From the late 1960s into the 1970s, in pioneering new approaches to the partition of Ireland and the Irish language revival, he deviated from political and linguistic Irish nationalism, and with the wide philosophical scope of his "Beyond Nationalism: The Struggle against Provinciality in the Modern World", from contemporary Irish culture generally.
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White People (short story collection) White People is a 1991 novel by author Allan Gurganus.
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Irish Eyes Irish Eyes is the fifth of the "Nuala Anne McGrail series" of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley.
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Flannery O'Connor bibliography The bibliography of Flannery O'Connor includes two novels, more than thirty short stories, and several collections.
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Marmion Savage Marmion Wilme Savage (1803–1872), also known as Marmion Wilard Savage, was an Irish novelist and journalist.
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Nick Burbridge Nick Burbridge (born 1954) is a British novelist, poet, dramatist, journalist, short story and song writer. He suffers from chronic depression, and his writing often concerns itself with the dispossessed, those at the margins of society. In fRoots, Jerry Gilbert described him as "a second-generation Irishman with a high intellect and an angry disposition."
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The Lady Daffodilia The Lady Daffodilia is a children's short story written by Evelyn Sharp and published in 1900 by John Lane. Among other works by Evelyn Sharp, it was published in a book entitled "The Other Side Of The Sun."
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Lisa McInerney Lisa McInerney (born 1981) is an Irish short story writer, blogger, and novelist. Her debut novel, "The Glorious Heresies", was published in April 2015 and won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2016.
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Joyce Cary Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957) was an Irish novelist.
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Foster (short story) "Foster" is a short story or novella by Irish author Claire Keegan.
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John Banim John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland." He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature.
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Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
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Colum McCann Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world.
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Giacomo Joyce Giacomo Joyce is a posthumously-published work by Irish writer James Joyce. Written in 1914, following the publication of "Dubliners", it was published by Faber and Faber from sixteen handwritten pages by Joyce. In the free-form love poem, presented in the guise of a series of notes, Joyce attempts to penetrate the mind of a "dark lady", the object of an illicit love affair.
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Mary Manning (writer) Mary Manning Howe Adams (30 June 1905 – 27 June 1999) was an Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
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The Empty Family The Empty Family is a collection of short stories by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It was published in the UK in October 2010 and was released in the US in January 2011.
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William Patrick Ryan William Patrick Ryan (1867 – 1942), was an Irish author and journalist.
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Irish Love Irish Love is the sixth of the "Nuala Anne McGrail series" of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley.