Tue 20 Feb, 1.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Music Building

David Park is the author of ten novels, a novella and two collections of short stories. His first novel The Healing (Jonathan Cape, 1992) won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award. The Truth Commissioner (Bloomsbury, 2008) was awarded the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and adapted for film; The Light of Amsterdam (Bloomsbury, 2012) was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and The Poets’ Wives (Bloomsbury, 2014) was Belfast’s One City One Book.  He has received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. His novel Travelling in a Strange Land won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018 and was longlisted for The International Dublin Literary Award. He has been shortlisted four times for the Irish Novel of the year and longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Competition. His most recent work, Spies in Canaan was runner up in the Gordon Bowker Prize, an award for a novel focusing on travel. His work has featured on BBC Radio 4, both as short stories and twice as the Book at Bedtime. His work is published widely in translation.