Carlo Gébler
Carlo Gébler was born to the writers Edna O’Brien and Ernest
Gébler in Dublin in 1954. He moved to London with his mother in 1958.
His novels include The Eleventh Summer (London, Hamish Hamilton/New York, Dutton 1985);
August in July (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); Work and Play (Hamish Hamilton/ New York, Fireside, 1987);
Malachy and His Family (Hamish Hamilton, 1990); Life of a Drum (Hamish Hamilton, 1991);
The Cure (Hamish Hamilton/New York, Little, Brown & Co. 1994); W.9. & Other Lives
(Belfast, Lagan Press 1996/ London & New York, Marion Boyars, 1998);
How To Murder a Man (London, Little, Brown & Co. 1998/New York, Marion Boyars Ltd 1999).
He has also written an Autobiography, Father and I: A Memoir (London, Little, Brown, 2000); as well as travel books, including Driving Through Cuba (1998); and The Glass Curtain: Inside an Ulster Community (1991).
His books for children include The TV Genie (1989); and The Witch That Wasn’t (1990). He is a member of
Aosdána and lives in Northern Ireland.
