Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, born in 1975. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Murray is the author of several acclaimed novels, including An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and nominated for the Kerry Irish Fiction Award, and Skippy Dies (2010), longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic fiction. His novel The Mark and the Void was published in 2015, and his most recent work, The Bee Sting (2023), was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, won an Irish Book Award as Novel of the Year, and received 2023's inaugural Nero Book Award.