O\'Connor, Joseph: - Joseph O\'Connor was born in Dublin.
He lives in Ireland and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick..
He holds an honorary Doctorate in Literature from University College Dublin, and received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012.
In 2009 he was the Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, City University of New York.
It won France\'s Prix Millepages, Italy\'s Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year.
His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 languages.
He has also written film scripts and radio and stage-plays.
He is the author of nine novels, two collections of short stories, and a number of bestselling works of non-fiction.
O\'Connor, Joseph: - Joseph O\'Connor was born in Dublin
