Rob Doyle is an Irish author. He has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a book of non-fiction, and he is the editor of two anthologies.
His 2014 novel Here Are the Young Men was adapted into a 2020 film of the same name.[1] His writing has appeared in the New York Times,[2] Observer,[3] Dublin Review,[4] and many other publications.
Early life
editDoyle was born in Dublin, where his father and mother worked in the post office until their retirement.[5] He studied Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.[6] After completing his education, Doyle left Ireland to travel and live abroad for a number of years, with periods in Southeast Asia, South America, London, San Francisco and Sicily. Throughout his twenties he made a living as an English language teacher and philosophy tutor. After quitting his teaching work to devote himself full-time to writing, he lived for periods in Paris, Berlin, Dublin, and Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford.[7][8]
Career
editDoyle wrote his first novel, Here Are the Young Men, while living in London. It was published in 2014 by Lilliput Press and Bloomsbury. It was shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards,[9] and was included in Hot Press magazine’s ‘20 Greatest Irish Novels 1916-2016’.[10] A film adaptation directed by Eoin Macken and starring Dean-Charles Chapman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Finn Cole and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo was released in 2020. This Is the Ritual, a collection of short fiction, was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury and Lilliput Press, and was a book of the year in the New Statesman[11] and Sunday Times.[12] Threshold, a work which contains elements of memoir, fiction, and travel-writing,[13] was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. It was described in the TLS as ‘Riddling, irreverent, fearless… His best book so far’,[14] by the New York Times as ‘game and gleefully provocative’,[15] and by Ryan Chapman in Inside Hook as ‘the great drug novel of our time’.[16] Threshold was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021.[17] In 2021 Doyle’s first nonfiction book Autobibliography was published by Swift Press. The book evolved from a weekly column Doyle wrote in the Irish Times throughout 2019 on rereading 52 of the books that had influenced him.[18] Doyle edited the anthologies The Other Irish Tradition, published in 2017 by Dalkey Archive Press,[19] and In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep, published in 2018 by Broken Dimanche Press.[20] Doyle played the lead role - ‘the Hitcher’ - in the feature film Hit the North, directed by Daniel Sayer.[21]
Books
edit• — (2014). Here Are the Young Men. Bloomsbury / Lilliput Press.
• — (2016). This Is the Ritual. Bloomsbury / Lilliput Press.
• — (2020). Threshold. Bloomsbury.
• — (2021). Autobibliography. Swift Press.
References
edit- ^ "Here Are the Young Men". IMDb.
- ^ Doyle, Rob (March 15, 2022). "Peter Handke's Tale of the Telling of the Tale". The New York Times.
- ^ "Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review – the writer who ate himself". TheGuardian.com. May 29, 2022.
- ^ "Rob Doyle".
- ^ "Rob Doyle: 'Frankly, a lot of my life has been disastrous'". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Writer's Block with Rob Doyle". January 24, 2020.
- ^ "Interview: Rob Doyle". March 10, 2014.
- ^ "Rob Doyle takes a look at the darker side of life". May 11, 2017.
- ^ "Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2014 Shortlist".
- ^ ""You cannot escape where you are from": In Conversation with Rob Doyle".
- ^ "Books of the Year: Authors on their favourite books of 2016". November 20, 2016.
- ^ "This is the Ritual". January 24, 2017.
- ^ "BOMB Magazine | What a Novel Could be: Rob Doyle Interviewed".
- ^ "Threshold by Rob Doyle book review | the TLS".
- ^ Sehgal, Parul (March 25, 2020). "'Threshold' Resurrects the Angry, Ambitious Young Man". The New York Times.
- ^ "Drugs, Death and Globetrotting with the Modern-Day Kerouac".
- ^ "Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021: Two first-time novelists on shortlist". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Autobibliography by Rob Doyle review – charmingly provocative". TheGuardian.com. December 27, 2021.
- ^ "The Other Irish Tradition review: A timely tome". The Irish Times.
- ^ "In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep — After 8 Books".
- ^ "Interview: Hot Press talks to Rob Doyle".