Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003), Skippy Dies (2010), The Mark and the Void (2015), and The Bee Sting (2023).
[1] Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would later provide the basis for the school in Skippy Dies.
He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently completed his master's in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
His third novel, The Mark and the Void, was one of Time's top-ten best fiction books for 2015, and joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2016.
Described as "a tragicomic triumph"[7] and a source of "pure page-turning pleasure"[8] in The Guardian, it was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize,[9][5] won an Irish Book Award as 2023 Novel of the Year,[10] and won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for the 2023 Book of the Year.