The Bee Sting by UEA alumnus Paul Murray has been selected as the winner of the Nero Gold Prize, the overall winner of the previously announced category winners of the Nero Book Awards. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long […]
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Paul Murray wins Nero Book Awards Fiction Category
The Bee Sting by UEA alumnus Paul Murray has won the fiction category winner of the Nero Book Awards. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry […]
Anne Enright & Paul Murray Shortlisted for The Writer’s Prize
Two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for The Writer’s Prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, an award open to all works of literature written in English of any genre or form (except for books written explicitly for children) and published in the UK. Paul Murray (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing […]
Paul Murray has won the An Post Irish Book of the Year
The Bee Sting by UEA Alumni Paul Murray has been selected as the winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First […]
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is a Times Best Novel of the Year
The Bee Sting by UEA alumna Paul Murray has been selected as a Times Best Novel of the Year. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Irish […]
Stephen Buoro & Paul Murray shortlisted for Nero Book Awards
Two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards. Stephen Buoro (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2019 and is currently studying for a fully-funded PhD in Creative & Critical Writing, is nominated for The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa in the Debut Fiction category; and Paul […]
Paul Murray shortlisted for Booker Prize
The Bee Sting by UEA alumnus Paul Murray has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Irish Fiction Award. His […]
Paul Murray named Kirkus Prize Fiction Finalist
The Bee Sting by UEA alumnus Paul Murray has been chosen as a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in the Fiction category. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award […]
Ayòbámi Adébáyò and Paul Murray longlisted for the Booker Prize
Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the Booker Prize. Ayòbámi Adébáyò (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014, is nominated for A Spell of Good Things; and Paul Murray, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001, is nominated for The Bee Sting. Ayòbámi’s […]
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Bee Sting is the new novel by UEA alumnus Paul Murray and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry […]
