Paul Murray is the author of three novels. An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) was shortlisted for the Whitbread first novel award. Skippy Dies (2010) was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Prize. Most recently, The Mark and the Void won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic fiction, and was one of Time magazine’s top 10 novels for 2015. Paul Murray lives in Dublin, Ireland.