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Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning writer of iv novels: Beyond THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK Snow and Cherry Heaven IN Morning, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018, among other prizes.
His debut novel RED Sky IN MORNING was published to disquisitional acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 2013. It was a finalist for France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) and was nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize). In the U.s.a., information technology was an Amazon.com Book of the Month and was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, where Lynch was hailed equally "a lapidary immature main". It was a book of the year in The Irish Times, The Toronto Star, the Irish gaelic Independent and the Lord's day Business organization Post.
THE BLACK SNOW (2014) was an Amazon.com Book of the Month. In France it won the French booksellers' prize Prix Libr'à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and the countdown Prix des Lecteurs Privat. It was nominated for the Prix Femina and the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize). It was hailed as "masterful" by The Lord's day Times, "fierce and stunning" by The Toronto Star and featured on NPR's All Things Considered where Alan Cheuse said that Lynch's writing was found "somewhere betwixt that of Nobel poet Seamus Heaney and Cormac McCarthy".
GRACE was published in 2022 to massive international acclamation. The Washington Post called the book, "a moving work of lyrical and at times hallucinatory beauty… that reads similar a hybrid of John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Cormac McCarthy'due south 'The Road'". It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Yr and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize. In France information technology was shortlisted for the Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature, among other prizes. It was a book of the year in the Guardian, the Irish Contained, Kirkus and Esquire, a Staff Option at The Paris Review and an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review.
BEYOND THE Bounding main was published in September 2022 to wide critical acclaim in the Great britain, Ireland, Australia and the US and volition exist published in the France (2021). The Wall Street Journal chosen the book "mesmerising"; The Guardian called the book "frightening but beautiful", while The Sunday Times said information technology had "echoes of Melville, Dostoyevsky and William Golding". It was called as a volume of the twelvemonth in the Irish gaelic Independent by Sebastian Barry who chosen the book "masterly".
Paul Lynch was born in Composition in 1977, grew up in Co Donegal, and lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. He was previously the principal picture show critic of Ireland's Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007 to 2011, and wrote regularly for The Sunday Times on film. He is a total-time novelist.
Prizes & nominations
2020: Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award: Winner
2019: Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature: Shortlisted
2019: Prix Littérature Monde: Shortlisted
2019: Chiliad Prix de L'Héroïne: Shortlisted
2018: Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year: Winner
2018: The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction: Shortlisted
2018: The William Saroyan Prize for International Writing: Shortlisted
2016: Prix Libr'à Nous for Best Foreign Novel: Winner
2016: Prix des Lecteurs Privat: Winner
2016: Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Honor: Shortlisted
2015: Prix Femina: Longlisted
2015: Prix du Roman Fnac: Longlisted
2014: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (All-time Foreign Volume Prize): Shortlisted
2014: Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize): Longlisted
2013: Bord Gais Irish gaelic Books of the Yr: Shortlisted
Books
Red Sky in Morning
The Black Snow
Grace
Beyond The Sea
PRAISE FOR Across THE SEA
• Book of the Year, Martina Devlin — The Irish Independent 2019
• Volume of the Twelvemonth, Sebastian Barry — The Irish Independent 2019
• Book of the Twelvemonth, Peter Cunningham — The Irish Independent 2019
"If you take a feeling that the older human being has underestimated more than one factor… that he is ignoring also many aspects of his own life, and that equally a upshot both men are in danger from something yet to happen, y'all're correct: only the scale of it, the extremity of information technology and the poetry of it are what Paul Lynch is going to prove you…. Contemporary Irish fiction prizes delivery, daring and an implicit trust in the reader: Lynch demonstrates a command over his ideas that comes from a pure lyrical telling, a speech act that, if you lot let it, will accept you anywhere. Across the Sea is frightening but beautiful."
— M John Harrison, The Guardian
"…the stark, mesmerizing volume reads like an existential statement between…irreconcilable truths, a Beckett play bobbing in the open water … If the two characters seem schematically opposed—will versus fate—Mr. Lynch takes pains to confuse their relationship, changing it from mood to mood into something biting, paternal, generous or adversarial. The novel's foundations are like the sea, likewise unfixed and unfathomable to allow the philosophical disputes to advance in a linear fashion. Both men announced courageous or cowardly, insane or transcendently wise, depending on the angle of the sunlight—as if the immensity of the setting renders even the firmest distinctions indistinct … Mr. Lynch's prose style is suitably rationed and sun-cured … Though bare and isolated, this fine book contains multitudes of experience."
—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Periodical
"Beyond the Sea is a book of transformation... Thanks to this book, Paul Lynch is no longer only one of the all-time Irish gaelic writers, but an author of international radiance."
— Bruno Corty, Le Figaro Littéraire
"The timeless aura and allegorical undertones of an ancient Greek myth….This is a book that will leave y'all feeling thoroughly wrung out by the final folio, but also happy to be alive."
— Roger Cox, The Scotsman
"Such an agonized sense of spaciousness feels in the spirit of its exotic setting, of Latin American sensualists such equally Paolo Coelho or Pablo Neruda, or the deep eastern wisdoms of Hermann Hesse… Beyond the Sea deserves a special place in Lynch's increasingly fascinating and diverse catalogue"
— Hilary A White, Irish gaelic Independent
"Masterly."
— Sebastian Barry, Books of the Year, The Sun Independent
"Some of the most of import fiction in the opening decades of the 21st century has come from Ireland, and Paul Lynch is i of the leading lights of this postmodern Irish gaelic Renaissance….In Across the Bounding main, Lynch takes his art to a new identify… Lynch manages to transform a news story into a universal tale of friendship and endurance and love … Across the Ocean is elemental. It is a story sliced to the bone. Information technology compels the reader to look unblinkingly at matters of life and death, at the eye of what it means to be fully human being. Lynch puts the reader on that minor gunkhole in the blank Pacific, implying that in a profound sense we are all there and must face the same questions that Bolivar and Hector are forced to face."
— Michael Pearson, New York Periodical of Books
"Lyrical, fantastical and almost hallucinatory… [with] a metaphysical, Beckett-esque bent… There are echoes of Gabriel García Márquez… [A] haunting, dreamlike novel."
— John Walshe, The Lord's day Business Mail service
"Lynch triumphed with Grace, his penultimate, Famine-themed novel and he does so again with Beyond the Sea. Fantastically written, a truly magnificent portrayal of the gritty battle between despair and hope."
— Grace Keane, RTE.ie
" Across the Sea by Paul Lynch blew me away. Ostensibly about two men set adrift on a savage sea, this is a beautifully written and tightly controlled novel about the human spirit and what happens when information technology is pushed to the limit."
— Christine Dwyer Hickey, Irish Contained, best summer books
" Beyond the Ocean by Paul Lynch, in which 2 fishermen afloat on the Pacific Ocean confront their demons, is as good as anything I've read in contempo memory."
— Rob Doyle, Irish gaelic Independent, best summertime books
"Elemental… incredibly unproblematic… and then beautiful.…a very, very powerful book."
— Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh, The Bookshelf, ABC Australia
"Literary representations of the ocean have traditionally been masculine… Lynch both acknowledges and subverts this tradition in Beyond the Sea…Thrillingly stripped-back prose equanimous of simple, declarative sentences that viscerally captures Bolivar'due south physical and spiritual transformation."
— James Bradley, The Australian
"Lynch'due south latest book weaves a tightly-written tale about 2 fishermen who are cast adrift in a tiny boat on a vast, unforgiving ocean. Every bit time drifts past and it seems to the two men that no i is expecting for them, the story begins to plumb the psychological huhuman depths that naturally attend a horror scenario such every bit the one Lynch unsparingly paints. His writing is luminous, his characters are vividly real and their united nationsthinkable dilemma feels and so close you lot can practically reach over the side of their boat and bear upon the water."
— Elizabeth Fortescue, The Daily Telegraph (Commonwealth of australia)
"With Beyond the Sea, Paul Lynch delivers a post-twentieth century existential parable which highlights the fragility and resilience of the human spirit through a crisis of existence every bit precarious as information technology is meaningless. The sea has e'er been a powerful metaphor and literary device, simply in the present age the travails of desperate souls upon the seas in search of refuge bears more than meaning than in whatsoever post-war fiction. With echoes of Camus, McCarthy, Hemingway, and Coleridge, Lynch illustrates the reciprocally indifferent relationship betwixt humanity and its environment, while subtly highlighting the same indifference between humans. The author of Grace (my favourite novel of 2017) presents a harrowing, still redemptive tale of spiritual purgation delivered with poetic and deeply evocative prose."
— The Reader (Australia)
"This poetic, aggressive tale by honor-winning writer Paul Lynch is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy and even Ernest Hemingway, though in its Irish fluency and lyricism information technology is stylistically far away from Hemingway"
— Spectrum (Commonwealth of australia)
"The light and dark of their lives play out in a story that is dazzling, unsettling and deeply revealing of the human condition."
— Brisbane News
"Confrontation with the other, with oneself and with ane's own finitude: Paul Lynch, armed with a style that is purified over the pages… follows in the footsteps of the groovy novelists of the ocean, Melville and Conrad – metaphysical giants as well, just like Faulkner or McCarthy in their not bad epics. And one cannot aid simply think of Hemingway, his Old Man and the Body of water, that universal and heartbreaking tale of man struggling with the power of nature and his mortal condition."
— Marie Chaudey, La Vie
"If the Dubliner changes form with this Beyond the Sea, which takes united states somewhere in South America, he shows the same — and admirable — mastery in the description of nature and human psychology…. The drift begins, and with it the fight for survival (superbly detailed) and a surge of emotions: antipathy between the ii men is followed by a beautiful affection, and the deep despair, heightened by a feeling of guilt and an astonishing serenity."
— Fifty'Express
"[Lynch'south] novels are artistic creations… and Beyond the Sea is based on an extraordinary true story…. Lynch'south business is not only the minutiae of survival or men battling the elements, although his business relationship of these is heady and persuasive. His main interest lies in the existential struggle within: how men handle themselves in extremis… His fourth novel has echoes of Melville, Dostoyevsky and William Golding… Only the literary work it almost invokes is Coleridge's The Rime of the Aboriginal Mariner, with its theme of law-breaking and punishment."
— The Sunday Times
"Exquisite, meticulous, powerful... A fisherman and a youth adrift on the Pacific in a fishing boat. Aught and everything happens, frequently at the same fourth dimension. And what a stylist"
— David Mitchell, author of Deject Atlas
" With the simply ocean as a backdrop, Lynch has the souvenir of transforming the story of this shipwreck into a breathless existential quest. A powerful epic in the beyond."
— Ariane Vocaliser, Le Monde
"Lynch's characters often come up from highly specific cultural and historical milieus – they may be postwar Irish gaelic emigrants, nineteenth-century tenant farmers, members of rural communities afflicted by the Corking Famine – just his narration wrenches them from their firsthand social context and deposits them in a distant, metaphysical terrain: a space outside their cultural moorings, where they appear perpetually uprooted or displaced. Here, Lynch's heroes become the locus of complex meditations on memory and identity. Nonetheless the writer tends to balance his philosophical speculation with a descriptive strain: ane that foregrounds the physical item of landscapes, settings and bodies.
In Across the Sea Lynch heightens and refines these trademark features… [and it] articulates Lynch'due south literary preoccupations with striking clarity: the universal questions of whether we can forget the past, whether we engender our own fate, and how much of our soul is expressed in our physical being. Once Bolivar and Hector are cast into the ocean – helpless, static and isolated – there is nothing left for the narrator except these existential bug, which he unpacks with a conscientious, piercing intelligence…
Almost every line, pared down to its essential components, seems cut curt by an omission, haunted by something unsaid. Large gaps between the paragraphs entrench this sense of pervasive silence…. its pages are alive with elegance and insight."
— Oliver Eagleton, The Times Literary Supplement
"An epic with, as epics should have, more than than a touch of poesy well-nigh it, and possibly the grimmest, simply also most beautifully written, novel set at sea that I have read since William Golding'sPincher Martin"
— Andrew Stuttaford, The New Benchmark
"Lynch takes a panga gunkhole lost at bounding main and fashions it into a story that seems to inhale and exhale with the very days and nights experienced on Globe … [this is] the best type of reading experience—one where near everything propels thinking. It grips the reader with large and unanswerable questions: What is true? What is knowing? What is significant? Yet, somehow, Lynch provides exactly what seems to be impossible—answers."
— Keith Contorno, The Chicago Review of Books
""Horrifying yet incredible… An antidote for trauma suffered during Covid-nineteen lockdown? Imagine weeks turn to months adrift in a small boat, watching ships in the altitude, and their deadening vanishing… So, what is the claw that pulls the reader along? Bated from the obvious hope of send or country, it is the fisherman'south journey to self-enlightenment that is the existent folio-turner. In exploring survival and existential crisis nosotros witness men being confronted by their ain truths."
— Carina McNally, Irish gaelic Examiner
"Paul Lynch is rightly considered one of Republic of ireland'due south rising literary stars…Beyond The Sea acts as parable: about hope vs despair and man vs nature (with subtle climate change warnings running throughout). Information technology'due south also a middle-rending story nearly relationships and redemption."
— Hot Printing
… haunting … The initial quick pacing gives way to languid, thin chapters in which the men explore their relationships, values, and spirituality … Lynch's enchanting tale reveals the stark beauties that come up from struggling to live at the mercy of the natural world."
— Publishers Weekly
"A lucid, lyrical tale… Lynch'southward spare and precise novel has a discrete, well-nigh mythical quality."
— The Irish gaelic Times
"Paul Lynch won the Irish gaelic Novel of the Yr 2022 for Grace, a lushly lyrical take chances story set in Dearth-era Ireland. His follow-up…[is] a short but absorbing tale of the lengths to which people get to avoid admitting who they really are."
— Metro
"Paul Lynch is one of our greatest writers, and Across the Sea is his best work however. A sublime, elemental, fever dream of a novel that constantly tests u.s., tempts us, and guides us. This is a piece of work of fine art that relentlessly and slyly captures not merely the trials of the human spirit, but what we are doing to our environment, our world, and to each other–a profound, unforgettable journeying, one I urge you to experience."
— Paul Yoon, author of The Mount
"Combining the sensibilities of a Joseph Conrad or a Cormac McCarthy with the poetic intensity of an Emily Dickinson, this rich, raw, and powerful seascape past Paul Lynch throws the sea's storms and the sea's light into the darkest corners of human consciousness. An astonishing achievement."
— Jane Urquhart, author of The Night Stages
"A powerful, eye-breaking story of friendship forged in the well-nigh extreme conditions. With its echoes of Greek myth, it yields up those small moments of grace that are deeply transformative."
— Mary Costello, author of The River Capture
"Across the Sea sets united states adrift in the unbounded ocean and stuns united states of america with beautiful, trigger-happy insights. After the familiar world has receded and the stories we tell ourselves have dissolved, we are left to confront our barest fears and self-accusations. Paul Lynch submerges us in the wildness of our ain minds; I resurfaced changed."
— Chia-Chia Lin, writer of The Unpassing
"I highly recommend Paul Lynch'due south stunning Beyond the Sea, another tour de force from the Limerick man."
— Donal Ryan, Irish gaelic Examiner
"Ii men on a gunkhole, adrift in the middle of the ocean. With "Beyond the Ocean", Irishman Paul Lynch has written a brilliant, sensitive and touching novel well-nigh the human being condition."
— Jean-Claude Vantroyen, Le Soir, (Kingdom of belgium)
"As painful equally it is captivating, this novel is a true performance, since it deploys a wealth of experience and intensity based on a very slim set-up, and once again proves that Paul Lynch is an author for whom every word must accept its necessity…. another opportunity for a tremendous lesson in faith in humanity."
— La Libre Belgique
"From a survival story, from an adventure novel, Beyond the Sea transforms into a metaphysical experience [where] the author reveals with fascination and, information technology must be said, horror, the progressive destitution of the man soul... To be capable of such a matter in some 200 pages is not a matter of prowess simply of genius."
— Hebdoscopoe
"Ane of the great writers of today... We retrieve of Melville throughout these stormy pages, rich in the best that the seaside novel tin can produce, a mixture of harshness and melancholy.
— Marianne
contact
Paul Lynch representation:
Literary Agent UK — Simon Trewin, London. Contact:electronic mail
Literary Agent Usa — Dorian Karchmar, WME, New York. Contact:email
For publicity in North America:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, USA — Lauren Roberts. Contact:email
For publicity in the Uk:
Oneworld — Kate Bland. Contact:email
For publicity in Ireland:
Repforce — Cormac Kinsella. Contact:email
Pour la publicité en France:
Edition Albin Michel — Florence Godfernaux. Contacter:email
Per la pubblicità in Italia:
66th&2nd — Marco Scognamiglio. Contatto:e-mail
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