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Paul Murray

ポール・マレー

Pōru Marē

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1975 (Dublin, Ireland)
Nationality
Irish
Languages
English
Residence History
Dublin, Ireland

Career

Occupations
novelist, essayist, short story writer, screenwriter
Active Years
2003-2024
Influenced By
Thomas Pynchon
Nominations
Booker Prize longlist (Skippy Dies, 2010), shortlist (The Bee Sting, 2023), Costa Prize shortlist (Skippy Dies, 2010), Whitbread First Novel Prize shortlist (An Evening of Long Goodbyes, 2003)

Education

Blackrock College
Country: Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin
Faculty of Arts and Humanities / English Literature
Country: Ireland
Studied English literature
University of East Anglia
School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing / Creative Writing
Degree: MA
Country: United Kingdom
Completed master's in creative writing

Awards

Irish Book Award
2023
Work: The Bee Sting
Category: Novel of the Year
Organization: An Post Irish Book Awards
Result: 受賞
Nero Book Award
2023
Work: The Bee Sting
Category: Book of the Year
Organization: Nero
Result: ゴールド賞受賞
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
2016
Work: The Mark and the Void
Category: Comic Fiction
Result: 共同受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

2003 Comic fiction

Skippy Dies

2010 Comic fiction

The Mark and the Void

2015 Comic fiction

The Bee Sting

2023 Tragicomedy

Bibliography

  • An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003), Skippy Dies (2010), The Mark and the Void (2015), The Bee Sting (2023), That's My Bike! (2011, short story), The Dragon-Ship (2016, short story), Metal Heart (2018, screenplay)

Adaptations

  • Metal Heart (screenplay, dir. Hugh O'Conor, 2018)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Comic fictionSatiricalHumorous
Recurring Motifs
Family dysfunctionContemporary Irish societySchool life

Legacy

One of the most important contemporary Irish novelists, with The Bee Sting shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winning multiple awards.

Trivia

  • Son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama at University College Dublin.
  • Lives in Dublin with his wife and son.
  • Spent time teaching English in Barcelona, which he described as unhappy.