Paul Lynch is author of four novels — BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France’s booksellers’ prize, Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel. He has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in the UK, the William Saroyan International Prize in the US and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde, and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. Born in Limerick in 1977, he grew up in Donegal and lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.
Paul Lynch
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)