Catherine Dunne (writer) explained

Catherine Dunne
Birth Place:	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]

Published books

, Dunne had written ten novels and a work of non-fiction.^[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)^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Catherine Dunne. Pan Macmillan. 16 July 2016.
2. News: Irish author Catherine Dunne honoured in Italy. RTÉ. 4 July 2013. 3 March 2016.
3. News: Loose Leaves. Martin. Doyle. The Irish Times. 27 September 2013. 16 July 2016.
4. Web site: Irish PEN Award for Literature . Irish PEN . 1 January 2023.
5. Web site: Biography. Catherine Dunne. 3 March 2016.
6. News: In the Beginning. Publishers Weekly. 3 March 1997. 16 July 2016.
7. News: Dublin writer Catherine Dunne harks back to Greek myth for 10th novel The Years That Followed. Brian. Campbell. The Irish News. 14 April 2016. 16 April 2016.