Deirdre Madden

Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is an Irish novelist from Toomebridge, County Antrim. She was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Trinity College, Dublin (BA), and at the University of East Anglia (MA). In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork, and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy. Deirdre Madden has won various awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, 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"