Paul Lynch (writer)

Paul Lynch is an Irish writer living in Dublin, Ireland. He was born in Limerick in 1977 and grew up in County Donegal.^[1] His first novel Red Sky in Morning won him acclaim in the United States and France, where the book was a finalist for France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award).^[1] His second novel, The Black Snow, won France's bookseller prize, Prix Libr’à Nous for best foreign novel.^[2] Grace, his third novel, won The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year ^[3] and was shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.^[4]

Background[]

Lynch was the chief film critic of the Sunday Tribune from 2007 to 2011. He had previously served from 2004 as the paper's deputy chief-sub editor. He has written regularly for The Sunday Times on film and has also written for The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, and Film Ireland.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[]

• Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors’ Literary Award, winner 2020^[5]
• The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, winner 2018^[6]
• The Walter Scott Prize, shortlisted 2018,^[7]
• The William Saroyan International Prize, shortlisted 2018
• Prix Jean-Monnet de Littérature Européenne, shortlisted 2019^[8]
• Prix Littérature Monde, shortlisted 2019^[9]
• Grand Prix de L’Héroïne, shortlisted 2019^[10]
• Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel, winner 2016^[7]
• Prix des Lecteurs Privat, winner 2016^[7]
• Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors’ Literary Award, shortlisted 2016
• Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, finalist 2014^[7]
• Prix Femina, nominated 2015^[7]
• Prix du Premier Roman, nominated 2014^[7]
• Prix du Roman Fnac, nominated 2015^[7]
• Best Newcomer at Bord Gais Irish Books of the Year, shortlisted 2013

Novels[]

• Red Sky in Morning. London: Quercus, 2013. New York: Little, Brown, 2013
• The Black Snow. London: Quercus, 2014. New York: Little, Brown, 2015
• Grace. London: Oneworld, 2017. New York: Little, Brown, 2017
• Beyond the Sea. London: Oneworld, 2019. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.paullynchwriter.com/