Chris Binchy

Chris Binchy was born in 1970. He studied English and Spanish at Unviersity College Dublin and later graduated from the master's course in creative writing at Trinity College Dublin. He worked as an embassy researcher, painter and hotel manager, and later trained as a sushi chef. His first novel, The Very Man, appeared in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes / Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year award. His second novel, People Like Us, was published in 2004. He lives in Dublin.