Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer. Her novel ''On the Floor'' has been longlisted for the

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. Her writing has appeared in ''The Irish Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Tatler'', ''ELLE'', and ''Sunday Business Post''.

Biography

Campbell attended a convent school in Dublin. While still a young girl she was the owner of Táin Mór, which won the

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in 1976. She worked as an

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, where she graduated from the

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in Linguistics. She worked as an investment banker at

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for 13 years, where she became the first female managing director of a trading team, an experience which inspired her novel ''On the Floor''. She studied

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and creative writing, at the

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. She lives in

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with her husband and her son.

Bibliography

*'' The Semantics of Murder'', Serpent's Tail, 2008, . A novel inspired by the unsolved murder of

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. *'' The Loss Adjustor'' (2010). A novel about a woman working as a loss adjustor in London while dealing with her own personal loss. *''On the Floor'' (2013). A novel about a woman working as an investment banker in early 1990s London. *"Larry, Lay Down" included in the anthology ''New Irish Short Stories'', edited by Joseph O'Connor (2011)

Film

Campbell wrote the voice-over script for the film C.K., directed by Barbara Visser.IMDB
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References

External links

Author's website''Semantics of Murder'' website
* ttp://mostlyfiction.com/authorqa/campbell.html "An Interview with Aifric Campbell", ''Mostly Fiction'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Aifric Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Irish writers People from Mount Merrion