Deirdre Madden’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British Irish writer
Is Writer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 20 August 1960
Age: 59 years
Star sign Leo
Education
Trinity College Dublin
University of East Anglia
Awards
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 1987

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”.

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)
  • Molly Fox’s Birthday (2008)
  • Time Present and Time Past (2013)
  • Kösz, hogy szóltál Emily (2013)
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