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Martina Devlin
BornOmagh, Co Tyrone
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish
GenreHistorical, Non-fiction, Speculative

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

Biography

Devlin was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone. She worked in Fleet street for seven years before moving to Dublin. In England, she took up journalism, 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 where she completed an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature.[2] Afterwards, she combined working as a journalist in Dublin and writing novels.[3][4] Devlin does not write by genre. Three of her books are historical fiction and another is speculative fiction.[5]

She was vice-chairperson of the Irish Writers Center and holds a diploma in company direction from the Institute of Directors.

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)
  • Truth & Dare: Short Stories About Women Who Shaped Ireland (Poolbeg Press, 2018)

She adapted her short story 'What Would The Countess Say?' as a play, staged in Ireland in 2019 to make the centenary of Countess Markievicz's appointment as the world's second female minister - and the first to be democratically elected.

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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