- Gerard Donovan
Gerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist and poet currently living in
New York and in Charleston, Illinois.Donovan attracted immediate critical acclaim with his debut novel "Schopenhauer's Telescope", which was long-listed for the
Man Booker Prize in 2003.The Booker Prize Foundation. [http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive/36 The Man Booker Prize Official Website] : 2003. 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"." [Donovan, Gerard. [http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2007/08/one-question-for-gerard-donovan.html Interview by Jane Ciabattari] . "Critical Mass": 7 August 2007.]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). [ [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/gerard-donovan/ Gerard Donovan: Author Profile] . "Fantastic Fiction": 2007.] 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. [Donovan, Gerard. [http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/viewarticle.php?type=interview&id=74 Interview by Mark Thwaite] . "The Book Depository": 2007.]External links
* [http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2003_10_000760.php "Schopenhauer's Telescope" reviewed by Matthew Kirkpatrick at "Bookslut"]
* [http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article16472.ece "Doctor Salt" reviewed by John Tague in "The Independent"]References
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