Mark O’Connell
Irish author and journalist
Mark O'Connell is an Irish author and journalist whose first book was To Be A Machine, published in 2017.
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Born 1979
About Mark O’Connell
His debut book took the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and also made the shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019 he became the first writer of non-fiction to be awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Notes from an Apocalypse followed in 2020 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and A Thread of Violence came out in 2023. He earned a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and The Guardian.