Deirdre Madden

Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is an Irish writer 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.

Deidre Madden has won various awards, such as 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)

References

1. Article by Sorcha Hamilton, Irish Times, 1 August 2008
2. "Deirdre Madden". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-19.

External links

• 2013 interview in The Guardian
• 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