Deirdre Madden
{{short description|Novelist from Northern Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Use Irish English|date=October 2016}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Deirdre Madden
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1960|8|20|df=y}}
|birth_place=Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
|occupation=Novelist
|education=St Mary's Grammar School
Trinity College Dublin (BA)
University of East Anglia (MA)
|awards=Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (1987)
Somerset Maugham Award (1989)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2024)
}}
Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is a novelist from Northern Ireland.
Career
Madden was born in Toome, County Antrim and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School in Magherafelt. She proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and then to the University of East Anglia (MA).{{cite web|url = https://www.tcd.ie/trinitywriters/writers/deirdre-madden/|author = Heather Igman|title = Deirdre Madden|date = January 2016|publisher = Trinity College Dublin - Writers|access-date = 16 September 2023}}
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 in both France and Italy. She is a member of Aosdána.{{cite web| url = http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/madden/| title = Literature - Members - Deirdre Madden| publisher = Aosdána| access-date = 19 July 2023}}
Awards
On 2 April 2024, Deirdre Madden was awarded the Windham–Campbell Literature 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,{{cite web| url = https://www.tcd.ie/OWC/rooney-prize/| title = Oscar Wilde Centre - Rooney Prize for Literature| publisher = Trinity College Dublin| access-date = 19 July 2023}} the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award,{{cite web| url = https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/somerset-maugham-awards/| title = Somerset Maugham Award (Previous winners) | date = 8 May 2020 | publisher = Society of Authors| access-date = 21 July 2023}} and the 1980 Hennessy Literary Award, later (2014) being inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.{{cite web| url = https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/writer-deirdre-madden-inducted-into-hennessy-literary-awards-hall-of-fame-1.1754650#:~:text=Madden%20said%3A%20“As%20a%20recipient,course%20of%20my%20own%20life.”| title = Writer Deirdre Madden inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame | publisher = Irish Times | access-date = 21 July 2023}} She was also shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize.{{cite news |last=Lister |first=David |date=5 June 1997 |title=Canadian's first novel wins top prize for women's fiction |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/canadians-first-novel-wins-top-prize-for-womens-fiction-1254171.html |access-date=12 December 2011}} 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".Article by Sorcha Hamilton, Irish Times, 1 August 2008.
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)
- Authenticity (2002)
- Snake's Elbows (2005)
- Thanks for Telling Me, Emily (2007){{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/deirdre-madden/ |title=Deirdre Madden |publisher=Fantasticfiction.co.uk |date= |access-date=2015-09-19}}
- Molly Fox's Birthday (2008)
- Time Present and Time Past (2013)
References
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External links
- Christina Patterson, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/14/deirdre-madden-troubles-work "Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level'"] (interview), The Guardian, 14 June 2013.
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/books/review/Vanasco-t.html?_r=0 2010 review of Molly Fox's Birthday] in The New York Times Book Review
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Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Writers from County Antrim
Category:Women novelists from Northern Ireland
Category:20th-century novelists from Northern Ireland
Category:21st-century novelists from Northern Ireland
Category:21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland