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

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is #Descriptions, variously described as ...

Career

Madden was born in

Toomebridge Toome or Toomebridge () is a small village and townland on the northwest corner of Lough Neagh in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies in the civil parish of Duneane in the former barony of Toome Upper, and is in the Antrim and Newtow ...

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population ...

and was educated at

St Mary's Grammar School St. Mary's Grammar School is a grammar school in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. History St. Mary's was founded in 1927 by the Holy Family of Bordeaux, Sisters of the Holy Family of Bordeaux. Ten girls were enrolled in the f ...

, Magherafelt. She proceeded to

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

(BA) and then to the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

(MA). In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at

University College, Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of ...

, and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at

. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy.

Awards

Deirdre Madden has won various awards, including the

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the Irish American businessman Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers franchise and former US Ambassador to Ireland. The prize is awarded to Irish writers aged ...

, 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 The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's m ...

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)

References

External links

* Christina Patterson
"Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level'"
(interview), ''The Guardian'', 14 June 2013.

in ''The New York Times Book Review'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Madden, Deirdre 1960 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of the University of East Anglia People from County Antrim Women novelists from Northern Ireland 20th-century novelists from Northern Ireland 21st-century novelists from Northern Ireland 21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland 20th-century women writers from Northern Ireland