Paul McVeigh Residencies

Ferdia Lennon joins the residency to give a talk and answer questions on his experience as a debut novelist. Any what a debut.

Ferdia Lennon was born and raised in Dublin. He holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Glorious Exploits is his first novel. A Sunday Times bestseller, it was adapted for BBC Radio 4 and was the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son.