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Ms. Deirdre Madden

Associate Professor in Creative Writing (English)

 dmadden@tcd.ie

 3531896 3039/4397


Biography

Deirdre Madden is from County Antrim. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin and at the University of East Anglia. She is a novelist who has written eight novels for adults. Her works include 'The Birds of The Innocent Wood', 'One By One in The Darkness' and 'Authenticity.' Her work has won many awards including a Hennessy Award, the Rooney Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Kerry Book of the Year. She has been shortlisted twice for the prestigious Orange Prize and in She has also written three novels for children, the first of which, 'Snakes Elbows', won the Eilis Dillon Award in 2006. Her novels have been translated into several languages. In 1995 she was Writer in Residence in University College Cork and in 1997 Writer Fellow in Trinity College Dublin. She started teaching part time in Trinity in 2004 and became full time in 2007.

Representations

Details Date
Judge for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2014
Judge for the IMPAC Literary Award

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Medium Fluent
Italian Medium Medium Medium

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member of Aosdana 1997 present
Elected to Folio Academy 2014 Present
Deirdre Madden (Editor), All Over Ireland: New Irish Short Stories, London, Faber and Faber, 2015, 1-257pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Reading and Public Interview as part of The National Writing Academy of Writing programme, Pembroke College Cambridge, February 10th, 2015, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Launch of 'All Over Ireland': panel discussion around the book, Smock Alley Theatre Dublin, 24th May , 2015, Dublin Writers' Festival, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past, New York, Europa Editions, 2014, 1-161pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Reading from Novel 'Time Present and Time Past', M on the Bund Literary Festival, Shanghai, China, 2014, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Literature and Liberation, Beijing Bookwork Literary Festival, China, 19th March, 2014, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 2013, 1-225pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Tierparadies Emily & Co, 1st, Hamburg, Aladin, 2013, 1-221pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past (Bulgarian translation), Sofia Bulgaria, AMAT-AH, 2013, 1-147pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Deirdre Madden, Snakes' Elbows, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 2012, 1-233pp, Book, PUBLISHED
  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Hennessy Award 1979
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 1987
Somerset Maugham Award 1989
Award from the Society of Authors 1992
Fellowship at Scuol Kurhaus, Engadine, Switzerland 1993
Hawthornden Fellowship 1993
Fellowship in Atelierhaus Worpswede, Germany 1994
Kerry Book of the Year Award 1997
Eilis Dillon Award 2006
Hennessy Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award 2014