Roger Boylan
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Roger Boylan is an American writer (born 1951) who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland. Boylan attended the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh. His novel Killoyle was published in 1997 by Dalkey Archive Press. In 2003, a sequel, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, was published by Grove Press. Both novels were translated into German by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, The Maladjusted Terrorist, was published in German in 2007, and the entire Killoyle trilogy was reissued as a boxed set that year by the Swiss publisher Kein und Aber.
Boylan’s latest novel, The Adorations, deals with historical and religious themes and was scheduled to be published in 2009 in German translation, but the publisher postponed publication indefinitely, citing unfavorable economic circumstances. The novel will be appearing elsewhere.
Boylan is a regular contributor to Boston Review's New Fiction Forum, and his stories, reviews, and articles have appeared in many journals and reviews, including The New York Times Book Review and The Economist. He has recently completed a memoir, Run, Blazes, Run, and a novel, Ohiowa Impromptu. He currently lives in Texas.
Boylan is married and has a daughter, Margaret Boylan.
[edit] Works
Killoyle, An Irish Farce, Dalkey Archive Press, May 1997.
The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, Grove Press, October 2003.
Killoyle, Eine Irische Farce. Translated by Harry Rowohlt. Published by Rogner und Bernhard, Hamburg, 1999.
Rückkehr nach Killoyle : Eine Vorwiegend Irische Farce. Translated by Harry Rowohlt. Rogner und Bernhard, Hamburg, 2002.
The Maladjusted Terrorist. Forthcoming in English.
Killoyle Wein und Käse. Translated by Harry Rowohlt. Rogner und Bernhard, Berlin, 2006.
The Adorations. Forthcoming.
Run, Blazes, Run. Duvel Press, June 2011.
[edit] External links
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- Roger Boylan's website
- "Sorrentino's Abyss of Human Illusion," by Roger Boylan, The New York Times Book Review, February 28, 2010.
- "Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov and The Lunch That Wasn't," by Roger Boylan, The Economist/More Intelligent Life, January 2009.
- "Nabokov's Gift," by Roger Boylan, Boston Review, July/August 2007.
- "The Quiet Man: John McGahern," by Roger Boylan, Boston Review, January/February 2007.
- "Ian McEwan's Family Values," by Roger Boylan, Boston Review, January/February 2006.
- "Reading Aidan Higgins," by Roger Boylan, CONTEXT, Summer 2007.
- Review of Killoyle by Harvey Pekar, Austin Chronicle, Vol. 17, No. 8.
- Review of Killoyle, Magill Book Reviews.
- Review of The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, The Village Voice.
