Mark O’Connell

Mark O’Connell is an award-winning Irish writer. His first book, To Be a Machine, won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019, he became the first ever non-fiction writer to win the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book, Notes From an Apocalypse was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to the New York Re- view of Books, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder was published by Granta in July 2023.