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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 Now,[2] which was published in Italy as Quel che ora sappiamo.[3] Dunne received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2018.[4]

Born1954 (age 7172)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationNovelist
NationalityIrish
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Catherine Dunne
Born1954 (age 7172)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationNovelist
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Website
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Published books

As of March 2025, Dunne had written 12 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]

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)
  • Heart of Gold (2015)
  • The Years That Followed (Macmillan, 2016)[6]
  • A Good Enough Mother (2024)

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