Catherine Dunne (writer)

Catherine Dunne (born 1954) is an Irish writer. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher.[1] In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for The Things We Know,[2] which was published in Italy as Quel che ora sappiamo.[3]

For the Irish nun killed by the IRA, see Catherine Dunne (bombing victim).

Published books

As of July 2016, Dunne had written ten novels and a work of non-fiction.[4][5] Her first novel, published in 1997, was In the Beginning, which was described in Publishers Weekly as "an auspicious debut".[6]

Non-fiction
  • An Unconsidered People: The Irish in Sixties London (New Island, 2003)
Novels
  • In the Beginning (Jonathan Cape, 1997)
  • A Name for Himself (Jonathan Cape, 1998)
  • The Walled Garden (Pan, 2000)
  • Another Kind of Life (Picador, 2003)
  • Something Like Love (Macmillan, 2006)
  • At a Time Like This (Pan, 2007)
  • Set in Stone (Pan, 2009)
  • Missing Julia (Pan, 2010)
  • The Things We Know Now (Pan, 2013)
  • The Years That Followed (Macmillan, 2016)[5]

References
  1. "Catherine Dunne". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  2. "Irish author Catherine Dunne honoured in Italy". RTÉ. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. Doyle, Martin (27 September 2013). "Loose Leaves". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  4. "Biography". Catherine Dunne. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. Campbell, Brian (14 April 2016). "Dublin writer Catherine Dunne harks back to Greek myth for 10th novel The Years That Followed". The Irish News. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  6. "In the Beginning". Publishers Weekly. 3 March 1997. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
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