John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of 7 adult novels and 3 children books. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas won two Irish Book Awards, was shortlisted for the British Book Award, reached no.1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and was made into and award-winning Miramax feature film. John Boyne studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize.