Peadar Ó Guilín

Peadar Ó Guilín
Born	Peadar Ó Guilín
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Irish
Website
www.peadar.org

Peadar Ó Guilín is an Irish novelist.

Life and work

Ó Guilín grew up in County Donegal though he went to school in Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare.^[1] He is now based in Dublin where he works for a computer company.^[2][3] Raised speaking Irish and English, Ó Guilín is also fluent in French, and Italian. He has written a number of stories and novels. His first novel, The Inferior, was published to critical acclaim in 2007 and translations into nine languages including Japanese and Korean.^[4][5] Before writing novels, Ó Guilín wrote a number of plays and worked on a weekly print comic with the artist Laura Howell, Sneaky, the Cleverest Elephant in the World, aimed at kids.^[5][6]

The Times Educational Supplement called his first novel "a stark, dark tale, written with great energy and confidence and some arresting reflections on human nature."^[5]

Bibliography

• ISBN 978-1-4090-4764-3
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• The Deserter. Random House Children's Books. 13 March 2012.
  ISBN 978-0-375-98936-0
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• Forever in the Memory of God: And Other Stories. Kindle. 15 February 2014.
• The Volunteer. CreateSpace. 10 June 2014.
  ISBN 978-1499199529
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• The Call. David Fickling Books. 30 August 2016.
  ISBN 978-1338045611
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• The Invasion. David Fickling Books. 27 March 2018.
  ISBN 978-1910989647
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