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Synge Summer School
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As part of the Synge Summer School which runs from Thursday 28th June until Sunday 1st July writer Paul Murray will do a reading at 8 p.m. in the Brockagh Centre on Saturday 30th June. Paul Murray, a former bookseller, was educated at Trinity College Dublin and took a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for First Novel and nominated for The Kerry Irish Fiction Award. His second novel, Skippy Dies, was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and, in the US, the National Book Critic Circle’s Prize. Most recently Skippy Dies has been nominated for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. Despite being Irish, Paul was named one of ‘Britain’s 20 Best Novelists Under 40′ by the Daily Telegraph. For further information check out the Synge Summer School website on http://www.syngesummerschool.org
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