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Ed O’Loughlin is an Irish-Canadian author and journalist. His first novel, Not Untrue and Not Unkind, dealt with foreign journalists reporting on African conflicts. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction award in 2010.
A second novel, Toploader, was a dark satire on drone warfare and the war against terror. It was published to positive reviews in 2011. A third novel, Minds of Winter, a multi-generational polar mystery story, is due for publication in August 2016 by Quercus Books/Hachette.
Before turning to fiction, O’Loughlin worked for twenty years as a newspaper reporter, including fourteen years as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East for the Sydney Morning Herald, Age of Melbourne and The Irish Times.
Born in Toronto, he was brought up in rural Ireland. He now lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.