

She has also published REMEMBERING LIGHT AND STONE, NOTHING IS BLACK, ONE BY ONE IN THE DARKNESS, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1997, and AUTHENTICITY. Her first novel, THE BIRDS OF THE INNOCENT WOOD, was published in 1988 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. Her first novella, HIDDEN SYMPTOMS, was published in 1986 and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her early short stories were published in Ireland in various magazines, and in 1980 she won the prestigious Hennessy Literary Award. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where she won the Costello Award for English Literature.

Deirdre Madden was born in Toomebridge in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
