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Ed O'lOughlin (born 1967, Toronto) is an Irish Canadian writer and journalist. .

Ed O’Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times and other papers, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne. Shortly after having covered the 2006 war in Lebanon Ed O’Loughlin turned to writing full time. Soon his first novel, Not Untrue and Not Unkind, was long-listed for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. His second novel, Toploader, was published in April 2011.

Not Untrue and Not Unkind
In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright’s desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved. The book received positive reviews in the media.Joshua Hammer from the New York Times wrote ‘..with its intensely evocative language and atmosphere of looming tragedy, “Not Untrue and Not Unkind” is a book that far transcends the usual literary efforts of the former combat reporter’
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Toploader
Spying inside the Embargoed Zone is an expensive business, not to say risky, and Agent Cobra wants his wages in full. But his down-at-heel spymaster can only offer payment in kind - and the first thing he finds in an unattended storeroom. And so both men are sucked into the mysterious Toploader project, a race to retrieve a deadly secret from inside the world's first - and best - walled-off terrorist entity. Also caught in the crossfire are a resourceful teenage girl, a gung-ho reporter, a hapless drone-pilot and at least one very unfortunate donkey. Toploader is about to make their lives a lot more dangerous, and an awful lot more bizarre.
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John Burnside of The Guardian wrote:‘It is not altogether extravagant to claim, as the book’s publicity does, that Toploader is “in the tradition of M*A*S*H, Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse-Five”, but there is no real need for such comparisons: situated, or rather wavering nicely, somewhere between satire, fable and shaggy dog story, O’Loughlin’s second novel should be enjoyed for its own virtues, the most unsettling of which may be its extreme laconicism. One absurdist delight follows another in rapid succession…’
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Awards

 * long-listed for the 2009 Man Booker Prize