Brunel Writers Talking Series: Paul Murray, Winner of the Nero Book Awards

Brunel Writers Talking Series: Paul Murray, Winner of the Nero Book Awards

Paul Murray, Winner of the Nero Book Awards Gold Prize, in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo, Prof. of Creative Writing at Brunel 

Brunel University of London is a very proud sponsor of the Nero Book Awards. We are delighted to welcome Paul Murray, winner of the Fiction category and Gold Prize in 2024, to the Brunel Writers Talking series. Paul will be interviewed about his work by Bernardine Evaristo, Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel. 

Paul Murray is the acclaimed author of four novels. An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and, in the US, the National Book Critics’ Circle Prize. The Mark and the Void (2015) won the Bollinger Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and was one of Time Magazine’s ten best fiction books for 2015. His most recent novel, The Bee Sting, won the Nero Gold Prize and the An Post Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His work has appeared in New York, Granta, The Paris Review, and the New York Times.

Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other, the first black woman and black British person to win it. It was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller for five weeks and spent 44 weeks in the Top 10. It has sold over a million copies and there are now over 60 translations of her books in over forty languages. Her memoir, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021) was published in 2021, and Look Again: Feminism (2021) was published as part of Tate Britain’s major rehang. She has initiated many arts inclusion projects and is currently the curator of Black Britain: Writing Back for Penguin, re-publishing books from the past. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford and President of the Royal Society of Literature.