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Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch (Born Limerick 1977) is an Irish novelist.

Life

When he was still very young Lynch moved with his parents to the Inishownen peninsuala in Donegal, where his father Pat took up a post in the Malin head coastguard station, the northernmost tip of the island or Ireland. The family later moved from the accommodation at the coastguard station into the town of Carndonagh, where Lynch attended the local school.

He left Donegal to study Journalism in Ballyfermot College, Dublin. Starting out in the Liffey Champion, it wasn't long before he found his way in the national media, finding work as a sub-editor in the Sunday Tribune. He rose to the position of Deputy Chief Sub-Editor of the paper and at the same time turned his had to film criticism, serving as the news paper's chief film critic from 2007 until the paper closed in 2011.

Lynch had begun writing fiction before the paper shut down, but being made redundant give him the push needed to go into it full-time. His single focus became the writing of his first novel Red Sky in Morning. Once he had a completed draft he started looking for a literary agent. After a number of rejections he was taken on by Ivan Mulcahy of Mulcahy associates and the book was submitted to publishers. The resulting auction in March 2012 had six publishers bidding for this promising new writer, and Lynch was finally signed by Quercus under editor John Reilly on a two-book deal. The book was publish in Britain and Ireland in April 2013 and will com out with Little Brown in America in November 2013. He has submitted his second novel, which will come out in 2014, and is working on the third.

Bibliography

The Trib: Highlights from the Sunday Tribune contains a selection of Paul Lynch's writing on Film, Y Books, Lucan, 2011.

Red Sky in Morning, Quercus, London 2013

Links

Authors Biog http://www.paullynchwriter.com/biography/

Agent http://www.ma-agency.com/authors/paul_lynch

The author on his novel Red Sky in Morning http://blog.easons.com/guest-article-paul-lynch-dreams-of-red-sky-in-morning/

Irish Times Interview by Arminta Wallace 8/05/2013 http://www.paullynchwriter.com/irish-times-interview/