Paul Murray
Irish novelist whose Skippy Dies is a sprawling, darkly comic novel set in a Dublin boarding school. The Bee Sting won the Duggan Prize and the Nero Book Award. He is one of the most ambitious voices in contemporary Irish fiction.
Works
- An Evening of Long GoodbyesNovel about a man confronting his relationship with his deceased father
- Skippy DiesNovel following overlapping teenage lives at an elite Dublin school
- The Mark and the VoidNovel about a banker and a manuscript revealing absurdity of modern life
- The Bee StingNovel about a family's economic and emotional collapse in contemporary Ireland