Peadar Ó Guilín

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Peadar Ó Guilín, born on 12 June 1968, is an Irish novelist who grew up in County Donegal, in the beautiful north-west of Ireland that inspired The Call, and went to school at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare. Raised speaking Irish and English, and fluent in French and Italian after living in Milan and Venice, he is based in Dublin, where he works for a computer company. Before his novels he wrote plays, worked on a weekly comic and performed as a stand-up comedian, and his short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Black Gate. His first novel, The Inferior (2007), opened the Bone World trilogy; The Call (2016), shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and named one of the New York Public Library's best books for teens, was followed by The Invasion.

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Books

• The Call (2016) · The Grey Land Core Canon
• The Invasion (2018) · The Grey Land Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (2 finalist mention)

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