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Martina Devlin is an award-winning columnist and novelist from Northern Ireland.[1]

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

Biography

Devlin was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. 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 MPhil 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. Four of her books are historical fiction and another is speculative fiction.[5]

She has written of her unsuccessful efforts at IVF and the toll it took on her first marriage.[6] In 2012 she married RTE journalist David Murphy.[7]

She was vice-chairperson of the Irish Writers Centre and holds a diploma in company direction from the Institute of Directors. She is a board member of Ireland's Future.[8]

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.[9] Her non fiction account of the Irish financial collapse, Banksters, co-authored with David Murphy, topped the best seller list for eight weeks.[10]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Three Wise Men (London, HarperCollins, 2000)
• Be Careful What You Wish For (HarperCollins, 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)
• Edith-a novel (Lilliput Press, 2022)

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

External links

• Homepage
• Book launch

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