Joseph O'Neill (born 1964 in Cork, Ireland) is a novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
O'Neill, who has half-Irish and half-Turkish ancestry, was born in Cork Ireland, in 1964. O'Neill's parents moved around much in O'Neill's youth, spending time in Mozambique as a toddler and Turkey until the age of four and also in Iran. From the age of twelve O'Neill grew up in The Neth...
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Joseph O'Neill (born 1964 in Cork, Ireland) is a novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
O'Neill, who has half-Irish and half-Turkish ancestry, was born in Cork Ireland, in 1964. O'Neill's parents moved around much in O'Neill's youth, spending time in Mozambique as a toddler and Turkey until the age of four and also in Iran. From the age of twelve O'Neill grew up in The Netherlands, where he attended boarding school at The Hague. He read law at Girton College, Cambridge, preferring it over English because "literature was too precious" and he wanted it to remain a hobby. O'Neill started off his literary career in poetry, however he ceased this at the age of 24 . After a year off to write his first novel, O'Neill became a barrister at the English Bar, where he practised for ten years at The Temple, principally in the field of business law. He is a member of chambers at 3 Hare Court.
He is married to Vogue editor...
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