WRITER

John Boyne

1971 - Today

John Boyne

John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist. He is the author of fourteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas and one collection of short stories. His novels are published in over 50 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Boyne has received more than 1,029,018 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John Boyne is the 3,481st most popular writer (up from 4,593rd in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 205th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

1.0M
Page Views (PV)
51.60
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
33
Languages Editions (L)
6.95
Effective Languages (L*)
2.61
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Congress of Rough Riders

2001

The Thief of Time

Longevity, Fiction

2000

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

naivety, gas chambers, Commandants

Nine year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process. ([source][1]) [1]: https://johnboyne.com/book/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-6/

2006

Crippen

Fiction, History, Murderers

2004

The house of special purpose

Literature, Russians, Fiction

The stunning new novel from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.Russia, 1915: At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family. He is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position - as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II.Sixty five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget.THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSEis a novel about a young man ripped from a loving home and thrust into the heart of a dying empire. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which led to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is a witness and participant in a drama which will echo down the century. His is also a story of a marriage in which a husband finds it impossible to live in the present and a wife unable to reconcile herself with the past.Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, the novel moves from revolutionary St Petersburg to Paris after the First World War, and from London during the Blitz to the eastern coast of Finland during the 1980s, before returning to a quiet hospital bed where Georgy and Zoya's story must finally be resolved.

2009

Next of Kin

Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction, Debtor and creditor

2008

Page views of John Boynes by language

Over the past year John Boyne has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 144,087 views, followed by Spanish (46,379), and German (25,430). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (89.63%), Southern Azerbaijani (87.82%), and Basque (58.59%)