{"id":368,"date":"2016-02-10T22:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T22:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/?page_id=368"},"modified":"2017-07-12T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:24:23","slug":"donal-ryan-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/?page_id=368","title":{"rendered":"Donal Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Donal-Ryan.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-image-261 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Donal-Ryan.jpeg\" alt=\"Donal Ryan\" width=\"136\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donal Ryan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Donal Ryan is an Irish writer who was born in Co. Tipperary. He received a law degree from The University of Limerick and worked for the National Employment Rights Authority before becoming a full time writer.<\/p>\n<p>His debut novel,\u00a0<strong>The Spinning Heart<\/strong>, was published in 2012 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize (2013). \u00a0It also received the Irish Book Awards Best Irish Newcomer (2012), the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year (2012), Guardian First Book Award, winner (2013), and the European Union Prize for Literature (Ireland) (2015).<\/p>\n<p>His second novel,\u00a0<strong>The Thing About<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>December<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was published in 2013, although written before <strong>The Spinning Heart<\/strong>. \u00a0It was shortlisted for the Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards\u00a0(2013).<\/p>\n<p>Donal has also written <strong>A Slanting of the Sun<\/strong> (2015) and <strong>All We Shall Know<\/strong> (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donal Ryan is an Irish writer who was born in Co. Tipperary. He received a law degree from The University of Limerick and worked for the National Employment Rights Authority before becoming a full time writer. His debut novel,\u00a0The Spinning Heart, was published in 2012 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize (2013). \u00a0It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}