# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donal-ryan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:45:05.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donal-ryan"
name: "Donal Ryan"
slug: "donal-ryan"
description: "Donal Ryan is an Irish writer. He has published seven novels and one short story collection. In 2016, novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry described Ryan in The Guardian as \"the king of the new wave of Irish writers\". All of Ryan's novels have been number-one bestsellers in Ireland. His novel Heart, Be at Peace won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction."
tagline: "Irish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donal_Ryan_(born_1976)_at_Irish_Writers'_Weekend_2024.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.579197333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12624258/"
    handle:    "nm12624258"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Донал Райън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Ryan"
    title: "Donal Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Ryan"
    title: "Donal Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Ryan"
    title: "Donal Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Ryan"
    title: "Donal Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Ryan"
    title: "Donal Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB"
    title: "Райан, Донал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD"
    title: "Донал Раян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16216750"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3353429"
    title: "Donal Ryan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump