Catherine Dunne | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) Dublin, Ireland |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
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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] Dunne received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2018.[4]
As of July 2016[update], Dunne had written ten novels and a work of non-fiction.[5][6] Her first novel, published in 1997, was In the Beginning, which was described in Publishers Weekly as "an auspicious debut".[7]