Paul McVeigh

The Good Son

Winner of The Polari First Novel Prize

Winner of The McCrea Literary Award

Shortlisted for the Prix du Roman Cezam

Shortlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award

Finalist for The People's Book Prize

City Reads Brighton choice 2016

ELLE Magazine Best Books of 2015

Gransnet Christmas Read 2015

Best of Year: Wales Arts Review & Irish Independent 2015

The Reading Agency pick of 2015

'Hollow' Shortlisted 'Short Stoy of the Year' at The Irish Book Awards 2017

Born in Belfast, Paul McVeigh is an award-winning writer whose work has been performed on stage and radio, published in print and been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.

He began his career as a playwright before moving to London where he wrote comedy shows, which were performed at the Edinburgh Festival and in London’s West End.

His short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, read on BBC Radio 5, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and 4, and Sky Arts TV.

He is the co-founder of London Short Story Festival, of which, he was the Director and Curator for 2014 & ’15. He is Associate Director at Word Factory, the UK’s premier short story salon.

The Good Son was selected from 160 books by The British Council and The Literary Platform to be one of twelve that will be part of The UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016.

Paul has read his work at festivals around the world and he represented the UK in Mexico 2015 and Turkey 2016 for The British Council.