Paul Murray (writer)

Paul Murray (* 1975 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer .

His father was a professor at University College Dublin , his mother a teacher. Paul Murray graduated from Blackrock Catholic College for Boys in the Dublin suburb of Williamstown. He then studied English literature at Trinity College in Dublin and creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich . Before starting his writing career, he worked as a bookseller . Today he lives in Dublin.

In 2003, Murray published his first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes . This was nominated for the Whitbread First Book Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award . His second novel, Skippy Dies , followed in 2010 and was nominated for numerous literary awards. His third novel The Mark and the Void was published in 2015 and was partially awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2016.

Works

• 2003: An Evening of Long Goodbyes (German translation by Wolfgang Müller, Antje Kunstmann Verlag Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-88897-404-5 ).
• 2010: Skippy Dies (German: Skippy dies , translated by Rudolf Hermstein and Martina Tichy, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3-442-47695-4 ).
• 2015: The Mark and the Void (German: The good banker , translated by Wolfgang Müller, Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95614-120-1 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Murray in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with the Telegraph
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