J.M.
DONELLAN is an author, musician, slam poet, teacher, traveller, voice actor and
event manager.He was almost devoured by a tiger in the jungles of Malaysia, nearly died of a lung collapse in the Nepalese Himalayas, fended off a pack of rabid dogs with a guitar in the mountains of India and was sexually harassed by a half-naked man whilst standing next to Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris.
His debut novel A Beginner’s Guide to Dying in India was the winner of the 2009 IP Picks best fiction award and lots of magazines say it’s very good, so it must be true. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies throughout 2011 and 2012.
For some weird reason,
he also scripted and voiced the internationally popular Pocket Hipster iphone application, even though he
still uses a phone with actual buttons. He was a finalist in the 2008 Youth
Week Writers’ competition but lost first place to a woman who wrote a poem about
her ovaries.
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