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David Park (born 1953) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. He grew up in a Protestant working-class family in East Belfast, and wrote seven novels while working as a teacher, before retiring to write full time.

His ninth novel Spies in Canaan, set in Vietnam, was runner-up in the 2023 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for a novel focusing on travel.

Selected publications

• Oranges from Spain (1990, short stories)
• The Healing (1992)
• The Rye Man (1994)
• Stone Kingdoms (1996)
• The Big Snow (2002)
• Swallowing the Sun (2004)
• The Truth Commissioner (2008)
• Light of Amsterdam (2012)
• The Poets' Wives (2014)
• Gods & Angels (2016)
• Travelling in a Strange Land (2018)
• Spies in Canaan (2022)

References

1. ^ Sansom, Ian (20 April 2012). "David Park: a life in books". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
2. "David Park". literature.britishcouncil.org. British Council. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
3. "The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize". Society of Authors. 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
4. Self, John (17 May 2022). "Making amends: David Park on loss, regret and youthful idealism". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

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