Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan was born in 1976 in the town of Nenagh, Ireland. He graduated from the School of Law at the University of Limerick, where he currently teaches Creative Writing. Until April 2014, he worked at the National Employment Rights Authority. Today, he lives on the outskirts of Limerick with his wife and two children. His works (The Spinning Heart, 2012 / The Things About December, 2013 / A Slanting of the Sun, 2015 / All We Shall Know, 2016 / From a Low and Quiet Sea, 2018) have been repeatedly awarded or nominated for significant prizes. His very first book was awarded the 2016 Book of the Decade in Ireland. Among other accolades, in 2013, he received the Guardian First Book Award, and in the same year, he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2015, he was honored with the European Union Prize for Literature. "From a Low and Quiet Sea" was shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize, the Irish Novel of the Year, the Costa Book Awards, and in 2019, it was nominated for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. His works have been translated into over twenty languages.