PÁDRAIG KENNY
Agent: Sophie Hicks
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer who hails from Newbridge in County Kildare. He is a graduate of Maynooth University where he obtained a master's degree in Anglo-Irish writing. He started his career writing radio drama. As an arts journalist he has contributed work to the Irish Times, the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Independent, the Irish Examiner, and several other publications.
His debut novel Tin was published in 2018 and was Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. It has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Northern Ireland Book Awards. Tin has also been shortlisted for several other awards including the Irish Book Awards, the Great Reads Award, the Redbridge Children’s Book Award, and The Wirral Children’s Book Award.
His second novel Pog was published in April 2019 and was Independent Booksellers’ Children’s Book of the Month. Pog has been nominated for the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award and shortlisted for the Sakura Book Medal.
His third novel The Monsters of Rookhaven is being published by Pan Macmillan in 2020 and will be followed by a sequel in 2021.
