Author

Books by Paul Murray

Paul Murray was born in 1975 in County Down, Northern Ireland, and studied at Trinity College Dublin. His debut novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 2003. His second novel Skippy Dies — a sprawling, darkly comic novel about a Catholic boys' school in Dublin — won the National Book Critics Circle Award nomination and established him as a major Irish literary voice. The Bee Sting, published in 2023, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and widely considered one of the finest Irish novels of the decade. He lives in Dublin.