Murray was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama at University College Dublin and a teacher.[1] Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would later provide the basis for the school in Skippy Dies. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently completed his master's in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. He also spent time in Barcelona, Spain, as an English teacher, a time he did not enjoy, describing it as "a brief and unhappy stint teaching English to a Catalan businessman, who pointed out many faults in my grammar I had not known about hitherto".[2] He describes Gravity's Rainbow as "really inspiring for me when I was younger because it was a bridge between the world of literature and the world of pop culture."[3]
His most recent novel, The Bee Sting, was published in 2023. Described as "a tragicomic triumph"[7] and a source of "pure page-turning pleasure"[8] in The Guardian, it was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize,[9][5] won an Irish Book Award as 2023 Novel of the Year,[10] and won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for the 2023 Book of the Year.[11]The Bee Sting was included on the New York Times list of “The Best Fiction Books of 2023”.[12]
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