![]() ![]() She would have been more focused on reading than my father he was more into newspapers. She was great about getting books into the house for us. My mother was brilliant, she was very bookish and encouraging. It was anything I could get my hands on really. Like a lot of people at that age who are omnivorous readers, it’s library books and schoolbooks and books you buy and books you’re given and books you borrow. Even by my late teens and certainly before I got to university in Dublin, that was absolutely what I wanted to do. I read a huge amount as a child and then as a teenager, and I suppose sometime in my mid-teens I became interested in writing. Photo by Aidan Crawley.Ĭan you begin by telling me about your early experiences of reading and writing and how you got started? Interviewed by Declan Meade in Dublin on September 21st 2009. She teaches at Trinity College Dublin, and is a member of Aosdána. Her most recent novel Molly Fox’s Birthday (2008) was short-listed for the Orange Prize earlier this year. Her novels include The Birds of the Innocent Wood (1988), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, One by One in the Darkness (1996) and Authenticity (2002), all published by Faber and Faber. ![]()
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