Martina Devlin

Martina Devlin
Born Omagh, Co Tyrone
Occupation Writer
Nationality Irish
Genre Historical, Non-fiction, Speculative

Martina Devlin is an Irish award-winning columnist and best selling novelist.[1]

Biography

Devlin was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone. She worked in Fleet street for seven years before moving to Dublin. She took a journalism qualification, followed by a degree in English Literature at the University of London (Birkbeck College). After working as a journalist for the Press Association, Devlin went to Trinity College, Dublin to do an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature.[2] Then she combined working as a journalist in Dublin and writing novels.[3][4] Devlin does not write by genre. One of her books is historical and another is speculative fiction.[5]

She is the vice-chairperson of the Irish Writers Centre.

Awards

Devlin has won numerous awards for both her writing and journalism.

  • 1996 Hennessy Literary Award for her first short story
  • 2009 Writer-in-residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco
  • 2010 GALA columnist of the year
  • 2011 National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year
  • 2012 Royal Society of Literature’s VS Pritchett short story award for her short story Singing Dumb.

She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book of the Year awards.[6] Her non fiction account of the Irish financial collapse, Banksters, co-authored with David Murphy, topped the best seller list for eight weeks.[7]

Bibliography

Fiction

  • Three Wise Men (London, Harper Collins, 2000)
  • Be Careful What You Wish For (Harper Collins, 2001)
  • Venus Reborn (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 2003)
  • Temptation (Poolbeg Press, 2004)
  • Ship of Dreams (Poolbeg Press, 2007).
  • The House Where It Happened (Ward River Press, 2015)
  • About Sisterland (Ward River Press, 2015)

Non-fiction

  • The Hollow Heart: The True Story of How One Woman’s Desire to Have a Baby Almost Destroyed Her Life (London, Penguin Books, 2005)
  • Banksters, with David Murphy (Dublin, Hachette Books Ireland, 2009).

References

  1. ↑ "List of Independent paper articles".
  2. ↑ "Biographical interview".
  3. ↑ "Book about witches".
  4. ↑ "Sisterland".
  5. ↑ "About genre".
  6. ↑ "Book awards".
  7. ↑ "Business Post".


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