Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill (born 1962) is an Irish novelist best known for his critically acclaimed historical fiction novel At Swim, Two Boys (2001), which earned him the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men's Fiction, along with the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel at the time. Schuster. He published earlier works Disturbance (1989) and Kilbrack (1990), and worked as a night porter while writing, drawing praise as a successor to James Joyce and others. Goodreads. Now living in County Galway, his writing explores themes of adolescence, homosexuality, and Irish history using stream-of-consciousness style.