Librettist
Mark O'Connell
MARSBiography
Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine. To Be a Machine was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. A Thread of Violence was named Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2023 Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Writer's Prize. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Guardian, and he writes a weekly column for The Irish Times. He is currently the Rooney Writer Fellow at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
July 2025