Deirdre Madden

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Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is a novelist from Northern Ireland.

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Career

Madden was born in Toomebridge, County Antrim and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Magherafelt. She proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and then to the University of East Anglia (MA). [1]

In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork, and in 1997 was a Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy. [1] She is a member of Aosdána. [2]

Awards

On 2 April 2024 Deirdre Madden was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize from Yale University, one of the world's most significant literary prizes,for the totality of her work to date. Deirdre Madden has won various other awards, including the 1987 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, [3] the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, [4] and the 1980 Hennessy Literary Award, later (2014) being inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame. [5] She was also shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize. [6] 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". [7]

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Novels

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References

  1. 1 2 Heather Igman (January 2016). "Deirdre Madden". Trinity College Dublin - Writers. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  2. ↑ "Literature - Members - Deirdre Madden". Aosdána. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Oscar Wilde Centre - Rooney Prize for Literature". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Somerset Maugham Award (Previous winners)". Society of Authors. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Writer Deirdre Madden inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame". Irish Times. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  6. ↑ Lister, David (5 June 1997). "Canadian's first novel wins top prize for women's fiction". The Independent. London. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Article by Sorcha Hamilton, Irish Times, 1 August 2008.
  8. ↑ "Deirdre Madden". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
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