Paul Murray is the author of four novels: An Evening of Long Goodbyes (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award), Skippy Dies (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for various other awards including the Costa Book Awards) and The Mark and the Void (winner of the Bollinger Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction). The Beesting, his latest novel, is published in June 2023. He also wrote the screenplay for Metal Heart (2018), which was directed by Hugh O’Conor. His stories and journalism has appeared in New York, Granta, The Paris Review, and The New York Times.

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