Ferdia Lennon

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. His debut novel, Glorious Exploits, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been adapted for BBC Radio 4. It has won several major accolades, including the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize (2024), the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2024), and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (2025). After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son.