Literature
Catherine Dunne
Catherine Dunne is the author of twelve novels, several essays, one novella and one non-fiction work, An Unconsidered People (reissued 2022), exploring the lives of Irish immigrants in 1950s London. Her novels include: The Things We Know Now, recipient of the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction in 2013; The Years That Followed, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2018; and Come cade la luce (The Way the Light Falls), shortlisted for the European Strega Prize for Fiction in 2019. Catherine received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2018. In January 2021 she was decorated as Cavaliere of the Order Stella d’Italia. Her twelfth novel A Good Enough Mother was published in Italy in November 2022, and was awarded the inaugural European Rapallo BPER Banca Prize for fiction in 2023.
A Good Enough Mother was published by Betimes Books in June 2024, and was launched by Catriona Crowe in the Irish Writers’ Centre on the 26th June at 18.30.
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