Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan
At the British Library's Irish Writers' Weekend in 2024
Born1976 (age 49–50)
County Tipperary, Ireland
Alma materUniversity of Limerick
Notable workThe Spinning Heart (2012); The Thing About December (2013); All We Shall Know (2016); Strange Flowers (2020); Heart, Be at Peace (2024)
AwardsEuropean Union Prize for Literature; Guardian First Book Award; Irish Book Awards; Orwell Prize

Donal Ryan (born 1976) is an Irish writer. He has published seven novels and one short story collection. In 2016, novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry described Ryan in The Guardian as "the king of the new wave of Irish writers". All of Ryan's novels have been number-one bestsellers in Ireland. His novel Heart, Be at Peace won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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