Ms. Deirdre Madden
Associate Professor in Creative Writing, English
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.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Deirdre Madden, Reading and Public Interview as part of The National Writing Academy of Writing programme, Pembroke College Cambridge, February 10th, 2015
Deirdre Madden, Launch of 'All Over Ireland': panel discussion around the book, Smock Alley Theatre Dublin, 24th May , 2015, Dublin Writers' Festival
Deirdre Madden (Editor), All Over Ireland: New Irish Short Stories, London, Faber and Faber, 2015, 1-257pp
Deirdre Madden, Reading from Novel 'Time Present and Time Past', M on the Bund Literary Festival, Shanghai, China, 2014
Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past, New York, Europa Editions, 2014, 1-161pp
Deirdre Madden, Literature and Liberation, Beijing Bookwork Literary Festival, China, 19th March, 2014
Deirdre Madden, Tierparadies Emily & Co, 1st, Hamburg, Aladin, 2013, 1-221pp
Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past (Bulgarian translation), Sofia Bulgaria, AMAT-AH, 2013, 1-147pp
Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 2013, 1-225pp
Deirdre Madden, Snakes' Elbows, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 2012, 1-233pp
Snakes' Elbows (Extract) in, editor(s)John Murray (Editor In Chief) Vladimir Babkov Victor Golyshev (Russian Advising Editors) , Irish Literature In Russian Translation, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2012, pp76 - 82, [Deirdre Madden]
Deirdre Madden, Jasper and the Green Marvel, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 2012, 1-194pp
Deirdre Madden, Ne Gjurme Te Vetvetes (Authenticity), Tirana , Botimet Morava, 2011, 1-267pp
Deirdre Madden, Motrat (One By One In The Darkness), Tirana, Botimet Morava, 2011, 1-212pp
Foreword in, Painted With Words, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011, pp12 - 13, [Lara Marlowe]
Deirdre Madden, A Conversation With Deirdre Madden, Glocal Ireland Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts, Glocal Ireland, Alcala, Spain, 2009, edited by Marisol MoralesLadron & Juan F. Elices Aguado , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp244 - 251
Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday, 1st USA edition, New York, Picador USA, 2010, 1-221pp
Deirdre Madden, When Did the World Become Coloured?, Princeton University Library Chronicle, LXXII, (I), 2010, p242 - 249
Deirdre Madden, Emily e gli Animali Parlanti (Italian translation of 'Thanks For Telling Me Emily'), Milan, Piemme Junior, 2010, 1-237pp
Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 2008, 1-221pp
Deirdre Madden, Thanks For telling Me Emily, 1st, London, Orchard Books, 2007, 1-239pp
Deirdre Madden, Authenticity, 1st, London, London, 2002, 1 - 385pp
Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 1996, 1 - 181pp
Deirdre Madden, Nothing is Black, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 1994, 1 - 151pp
Deirdre Madden, Remembering Light and Stone, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 1992, 1 - 180pp
Deirdre Madden, The Birds of the Innocent Wood, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 1988, 1 - 147pp
Deirdre Madden, Hidden Symptoms, 1st, London, Faber and Faber, 1988, 1 - 142pp
Recognition
Representations
Judge for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Judge for the IMPAC Literary Award
Awards and Honours
Hennessy Award
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Somerset Maugham Award
Award from the Society of Authors
Fellowship at Scuol Kurhaus, Engadine, Switzerland
Hawthornden Fellowship
Fellowship in Atelierhaus Worpswede, Germany
Kerry Book of the Year Award
Eilis Dillon Award
Hennessy Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award
Memberships
Member of Aosdana
Elected to Folio Academy