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)