Deirdre Madden

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

Life and work

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

By 2007, Madden has published eight novels, including a children's book. Your books are for the most part in Ireland, to a lesser extent in Italy. The focus is almost exclusively younger people, often, but not exclusively, women. Their life stories and circumstances are the starting point for investigations of questions of the individual in felt to be 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 won several 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 ( 1988). In addition, she was a finalist ( Shortlist ) for the Orange Prize for Fiction for One By One in the Darkness (1996 ), of the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award received in 1997.

Publications (novels )

• Dt: The colors of summer, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3608933271

• German: A Love in Dublin, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 9783608935585