Deirdre Madden

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Deirdre Madden (born 1960 in Toomebridge , County Antrim ) is an Irish writer .

Life

Deirdre Madden was born in 1960 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland . She studied at Trinity College in Dublin and the University of East Anglia in Norwich .

By 2007 Madden had published eight novels , including a children's book. Most of your books are set in Ireland and to a lesser extent in Italy . The focus is almost exclusively on younger people, often, but not exclusively, women. Their life stories and circumstances form the starting point for investigations into questions of the individual in what is perceived as torn Northern Irish society , the nature of art and the role of artists, the relationship between parents, especially fathers, and children, and the relationship between Ireland and Europe .

Prizes and awards

Deirdre Madden's work has received various awards , including the Hennessey Award for Short Fiction (1979), the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her first novel Hidden Symptoms (1987) and the Somerset Maugham Award for The Birds of the Innocent Wood (1989) . In addition, she was in the shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction for One By One in the Darkness (1996), which received the 1997 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award .

Publications (novels)

  • 1986: Hidden Symptoms
  • 1988: The Birds of the Innocent Wood
  • 1993: Remembering Light and Stone
  • 1994: Nothing Is Black
    • German: The colors of summer , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3608933271
  • 1996: One by One in the Darkness
  • 2002: Authenticity
  • 2005: Snake's Elbows (Red Apple) - children's book
  • 2007: Thanks for Telling Me, Emily
  • 2008: Molly Fox's Birthday