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The X-Factor
I was invited by the lovely Dannii Minogue to be her guest at the X-Factor results show on Sunday night in London. Very exciting! Dannii had said some very nice things about my books in a Sunday Times interview a while back and we started to correspond, which in turn led to the invitation. Great fun to be there and see how the programme is made. It’s impossible not to get swept away by the fun of the whole thing. Afterwards, my sister and I spent some time with Dannii in her dressing room backstage and got to meet lots of the contestants. A great night.
For more photos from the set and backstage, add me as a friend on facebook www.facebook.com/john.boyne1
Readings
I will be appearing at a range of international festivals over the course of 2010 and I’ve listed the first two scheduled readings on my website.
On Thursday February 4th, I’ll be in London at the Wiener Library on Devonshire Street, the world’s oldest Holocaust Memorial Institution, to take part in a lecture series entitled Writing Wrongs: The Nazi Era in Fiction. Tickets are available from 0044-207-6367247 or from their website.
A month later I’ll be in Paris on Thursday March 4th for a reading at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 5th Arrondissement. Tickets are available from their website.
There’ll be many more readings during the year, including appearances at festivals in Canada, Italy and Scotland, so check back on the webstite soon for more details of these.
Berlin: Day 2
Our second day in Berlin began with a visit to Potsdam where we were guests on RBB Radio, along with Nicola, the director of the Jewish Film Festival here in Berlin.
The festival runs here in Berlin from 4-14 May before going on tour.
In the evening I gave a reading at the 
Kathe Kollwitz Museum, alongside German actor August Zirner who read from the German translation of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS.
It was particularly good to hear the German characters of my novel read in a German accent. It also seems appropriate that the final stop on our movie tour is in Berlin, where the opening chapters of the novel are set.
The End of the Road
Today sees the release in the UK and Ireland of the DVD of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS.
It feels like a whole chapter of my life comes to an end with this but what a fantastic journey it was. I can remember meeting producers David Heyman and Rosie Alison in London and director Mark Herman in Leeds back in 2005, shortly before the novel was published, and being excited by their interest in making a film of my book but not entirely convinced it would ever happen.
And then the summer of 2007 in Budapest, watching the characters come to life as portrayed by David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and the two boys, Asa and Jack. The highlights of the movie experience include the fantastic World Premiere in Dublin, the days we spent at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain where we received such an enthusiastic response from the audience, and then our city-hopping aroung the States in the run-up to film’s release.
But with the DVD release, it’s really come to an end. (Well, almost… there’s one final event to come in May, but more of that soon.) And unlike most novelists who come out the other end of such an experience, it has been a total blast from start to finish and I hope that many of the friends I made along the way will stay in my life. And who knows, maybe another movie some day… Oh, and the DVD contains some deleted scenes, an audio commentary by Mark and I, and a documentary on the process of making the film, featuring all of us who were involved along the way.
Here’s a few photos from along the whole journey:
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- On set in Budapest with Asa (Bruno)
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- On set with Vera and Amber
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- Wrap party, with Asa and Jack
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- World Premiere in Dublin
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- San Sebastian Photocall
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- San Sebastian Premiere
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- In Dallas with Mark
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- At the Hollywood sign with David
Seoige
Yesterday afternoon, I appeared on RTE’s afternoon television show, Seoige, to talk about 3 of my favourite novels: John Irving’s THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, Jonathan Coe’s WHAT A CARVE UP!, and David Peace’s THE DAMNED UTD.
You can watch the show here – my segment is the first on and lasts about 10 minutes.
No.1 in the UK
The film tie-in edition of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS was no.1 in the Sunday Times Children’s Bestsellers List this week. It was also the overall no.2 bestselling paperback in the UK.
It’s the first time any of my novels has reached the no.1 position in the UK chart so very pleased to finally make it to the top position!
