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. 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. His second novel, The Black Snow, won France's bookseller prize, Prix Libr’à Nous for best foreign novel. Grace, his third novel, won The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

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, The Irish Daily Mail and Film Ireland.

Awards