Paul Lynch is the prize-winning author of Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky In Morning. His third novel Grace was published in 2017 to massive acclaim and won the 2017 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel.
His novels have been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in the UK, the William Saroyan International Prize in the US, France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize), as well as being nominated for France’s Prix Femina, the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize) and the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize).
His fourth novel, Beyond The Sea, tells the story of two South American fishermen washed out to sea. It will be published in the UK and Ireland in August 2019 by Oneworld, and in March 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.