Born in Limerick, Paul Lynch is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels — Red Sky in Morning, published in 2013, finalist for France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize); The Black Snow (2014), winner of the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and the inaugural Prix des Lecteurs Privat; and Grace, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018 and a finalist for the Walter Scott Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. 

His fourth novel, Beyond The Sea, was published in 2019 to wide critical acclaim. Libération has called Lynch “one of the great Irish writers of today”. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.

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