John Patrick McHugh

John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Banshee, The Tangerine, Tolka and Granta and been broadcast on BBC Radio3. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Pure Gold (4th Estate, 2021), and a novel, Fun and Games (4th Estate, 2025), which was shortlisted for Irish Book of the Year 2025, selected as an Observer Best Debut Novel, and chosen as a Book of the Year in The Irish Times, Vogue, The iPaper and the Observer.

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