Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is an Irish novelist from Toomebridge, County Antrim. She was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Trinity College, Dublin (BA), and at the University of East Anglia (MA). In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork, and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy.
Deirdre Madden has won various awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hennessy Award. She has been described as "a pivotal voice in Northern Irish writing, her understated yet complex fictions often touching on the religious and political turmoil of the North".[1]
Works
Novels
- Hidden Symptoms (1986)
- The Birds of the Innocent Wood (1988)
- Remembering Light and Stone (1993)
- Nothing Is Black (1994)
- One by One in the Darkness (1996) – Orange Prize shortlist, 1997
- Authenticity (2002)
- Snake's Elbows (2005)
- Thanks for Telling Me, Emily (2007)[2]
- Molly Fox's Birthday (2008)
- Time Present and Time Past (2013)
- Kösz, hogy szóltál Emily (2013)
References
- ^ Article by Sorcha Hamilton, Irish Times, 1 August 2008.
- ^ "Deirdre Madden". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
External links
- Christina Patterson, "Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level'" (interview), The Guardian, 14 June 2013.
- 2010 review of Molly Fox's Birthday in The New York Times Book Review
- Deirdre Madden at Library of Congress Authorities, with 7 catalogue records