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Paul Lynch is an Irish writer living in Dublin, Ireland. He was born in Limerick in 1977 and grew up in Co. Donegal, Ireland.
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Background
Paul Lynch was the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007 to 2011, when the newspaper ceased operations. 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.
He has appeared regularly as a film critic on Irish radio and is a member of the Dublin Film Critics' Circle. In 2011, The Irish Times called him one of Ireland's "finest film writers".
In a 2013 Irish Times profile, Lynch cites his primary literary influences as Cormac McCarthy, Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov and John Banville.
Awards
Paul Lynch has been a finalist in France for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He has also been nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize), the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize), as well as Best Newcomer at the 2013 Ireland's Bord Gais Irish Books of the Year.
Books
His debut novel Red Sky in Morning was published in 2013 and is set in Donegal and America in 1832. His second novel The Black Snow was published in 2014 in the UK and Ireland and in 2015 in the US. It is set in Donegal in 1945.
Red Sky in Morning
Toronto Star: A striking, poetic debut.
Irish Times: An intriguing debut novel reflects its author's past as a film critic, as well as showing off his love of language.
Washington Post
The Black Snow
Toronto Star: Return to a backward- and inward-looking society; with clear relevance to the modern global rise of anti-immigration sentiment.
The Guardian: raw, savage ... and tender. A brutal welcome awaits when an Irish emigrant returns from 1940s New York.