Water by UEA alumnus John Boyne has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. The Award is one of the most significant literature prizes in the world, worth €100,000 for a single work of fiction in original English or translated into English. John graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in 2004, and as a tutor on the Creative Writing MA in 2014. His first novel, The Thief of Time, was published in 2000, since then he has published a dozen other novels for adults and five novels for younger readers. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas was made into a feature film by Miramax. The Echo Chamber, was published by Doubleday in 2021 and shortlisted for the Eason Novel of the Year Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards; All the Broken Places was published in 2022; Water was published in 2023; and Fire was published in 2024.
John Boyne longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
