Carlo Gébler (born 21 August 1954) is an Irish writer, television director, and teacher.
[5] As a child, he had a "fraught relationship" with his father, who placed "repeated emphasis on the boy's stupidity".
[2] Gébler's first novel, The Eleventh Summer, was published in 1985 and was succeeded by August in July in 1986 and Work and Play in 1987.
[2] Gébler's subsequent works include plays and screenplays, libretti, children's books, short stories, novels and several memoirs.
Reviewing the 2011 novel, The Dead Eight, based on events that took place in rural Tipperary in 1940, Julian Evans described Gébler as an "overlooked novelist" with a "Swiftian understanding of the world's secret machinations".
[9] The Times Literary Supplement's review of The Projectionist noted the author's "emotional empathy" and remarked that "this loving care gives the subject importance beyond the surface facts".