biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Dublin, Ireland. Educated in Dublin, she worked as a journalist, winning in 1983 the Dublin Journalist of the Year Award. Her first novel, Holy Pictures, appeared in 1983, and a book of short stories, A Nail in the Head (1983), confirmed her reputation. Later books include Last Resorts (1984), Concerning Virgins (1990), That Bad Women (1995), Black Baby (1998), Another Family Christmas: A Collection of Short Stories (1999), and Beloved Stranger (2000). The film Making Waves was based on her short story Some Ladies on a Tour and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category in 1988. Non-fiction works include The Agony or the Ego (1993) and The Literary Companion to Cats (1994). |
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