Gerard Donovan
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Gerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist and poet currently living in New York.
Donovan attracted immediate critical acclaim with his debut novel Schopenhauer's Telescope, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2003.[1] His subsequent novels include Doctor Salt (2005), Julius Winsome (2006), and, most recently, Sunless (2007). However, Sunless is essentially a rewritten version of Doctor Salt -- ultimately very different from the earlier novel, but built upon the same basic narrative elements -- of which Donovan has said: "Doctor Salt... was a first draft of Sunless. I wrote [Doctor Salt] too fast, and the sense I was after just wasn't in the novel. ... I saw the chance to write the real novel, if you like, [when Doctor Salt was due to be published in the United States in 2007] and this I hope I've done in Sunless."[2]
Prior to his career as a prose author, Donovan published three collections of poetry: Columbus Rides Again (1992), Kings and Bicycles (1995), and The Lighthouse (2000).[3] His next publication will be a collection of short stories set in Ireland, followed by a novel set in early twentieth-century Europe which he is currently writing.[4]
[edit] External links
- Schopenhauer's Telescope reviewed by Matthew Kirkpatrick at Bookslut
- Doctor Salt reviewed by John Tague in The Independent
[edit] References
- ^ The Booker Prize Foundation. The Man Booker Prize Official Website: 2003.
- ^ Donovan, Gerard. Interview by Jane Ciabattari. Critical Mass: 7 August 2007.
- ^ Gerard Donovan: Author Profile. Fantastic Fiction: 2007.
- ^ Donovan, Gerard. Interview by Mark Thwaite. The Book Depository: 2007.
