Background
He was born in Limerick in 1977 and grew up in Company Donegal, Ireland.
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Paul Lynch
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Paul Lynch was the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007 to 2011, when the newspaper ceased operations. He had previously served from 2004 as the paper"s deputy chief-sub editors He has written regularly for The Sunday Times on film and has also written for The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Irish Daily Mail and Film Ireland.
In 2011, The Irish Times called him one of Ireland"s "finest film writers".
In a 2013 Irish Times profile, Lynch cites his primary literary influences as Cormac McCarthy, Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov and John Banville. Red Sky in Morning
Toronto Star: A striking, poetic debut.
Irish Times: An intriguing debut novel reflects its author"s past as a film critic, as well as showing off his love of language. Washington Post
The Black Snow
Toronto Star: Return to a backwardand inward-looking society.
With clear relevance to the modern global rise of anti-immigration sentiment.
The Guardian: raw, savage.. and tender. A brutal welcome awaits when an Irish emigrant returns from 1940s New New York
Achievements
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Paul Lynch has been a finalist in France for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He has also been nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize), the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize), as well as Best Newcomer at the 2013 Ireland"s Bord Gais Irish of the Year.
Membership
He has appeared regularly as a film critic on Irish radio and is a member of the Dublin Film Critics" Circle.
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Awards
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the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the Prix du Roman Fnac; the Prix du Premier Roman Paul Lynch has been a finalist in France for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He has also been nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize), the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize), as well as Best Newcomer at the 2013 Ireland's Bord Gais Irish of the Year.the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the Prix du Roman Fnac; the Prix du Premier Roman Paul Lynch has been a finalist in France for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He has also been nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize), the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize), as well as Best Newcomer at the 2013 Ireland's Bord Gais Irish of the Year.