When we asked John Boyne last year for a recommendation for our next author, he immediately replied Donal Ryan. From Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Donal currently lives in Limerick with his wife Anne Marie and their two young children. He is writer-in-residence at the University of Limerick.

Donal’s number one bestselling debut novel, The Spinning Heart, co-published by The Lilliput Press and Doubleday Ireland, won two Irish Book Awards and the Guardian First Book Award. It was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize.

Donal’s second novel, The Thing About December, topped the Irish bestseller charts shortly after its release in October 2013. It was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2013 and was on the five-strong shortlist for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year for 2014.
Donal’s novels are published worldwide and have been translated into several languages.

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