Ferdia Lennon
Ferdia Lennon was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and Libyan father. 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 short stories have appeared in publications such as the Irish Times and the Stinging Fly. In 2019 and 2021, he received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son. Glorious Exploits is his debut novel. It was published by Fig Tree Penguin in January 2024, it won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Waterstones Book of the Year, the Newcomer of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and the Debut Fiction Award at the Nero Book Awards as well as being longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2025.
