Kitty Fitzgerald (born 25 September 1946) is an Irish born writer.
Kitty Fitzgerald was born in Ireland. She grew up in
Yorkshire
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and lives in
Northumberland
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. She gained a degree in English as a mature student and went on to become a full time writer shortly after that. She is a novelist, poet and playwright. She has written 4 radio plays for the
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, eight plays for the theatre and film, as well as fiction and poetry. She also worked as editor for IRON Press. Fitzgerald has been awarded
Hawthornden Castle
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Fellowship. For her film ''Dream On'' she won the award of the most original screenplay at ''La Baule Film Festival''. Fitzgerald won the Short Story Competition in Notes from the Underground/
Latitude Festival
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in 2009. She has also won a ''Time to Write Award'' and a ''Hosking Houses Trust Writing Award''. In 2015 Fitzgerald was Writer-in-Residence for the
University of Manitoba
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