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Owen Dwyer

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Owen Dwyer is a prize-winning short-story writer who has won the Hennessy Emerging Ficton prize, the Silver Quill (twice), the Smiling Politely Very Very Short Story Competition, the South Tipperary County Council Short Story Competition and the Biscuit Fiction Prize, and has had stories published in Whispers and Shouts magazine.

​Number Games is his third novel, following The Agitator and The Cherrypicker. He has a degree in European Humanities. In 1992, Owen set up Irish Pensions and Finance, a pension provider which operates exclusively in the public sector. He lives in Dublin with his wife and their three children.

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The inspiration behind Number Games

I was asked recently where the idea for my book Number Games came from. It’s very difficult to pinpoint inspiration. In my case there seemed to have been a lot of different strands of thought playing around in my head over time, which came together as a result of a trigger. The trigger was a conversation I had with my son about the cutthroat nature of the singles scene in London, where he was livi Read more of this blog post »
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