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ACHUKA's Special Guest #6
P. J. Lynch |
P. J. Lynch was born in Belfast in 1962, the youngest of five children. Time spent on his mother's family farm in North Antrim had a very deep effect upon him. He was encouraged to take up art at St Malachy's College in Belfast, then did a foundation year at Jordastown Polytechnic before going on to study illustration at Brighton College of Art (where one of his tutors was Raymond Briggs).
After leaving college he won the 1987 Mother Goose Award for his illustrations to "A Bag o' Moonshine" by Alan Garner. Since then he has illustrated books at the rate of one a year, winning several further awards, including the Kate Greenaway Award (on his third shortlisting) for "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" by Susan Wojciechowski.
P. J. Lynch now lives in Dublin.