Irish Literature Prize: Fiction

Shadow-Box - Antonia Logue

Shadow-Box - Antonia Logue

Antonia Logue was born in Park, Co Derry, in 1972, and lived in Ireland until 1985 when she moved with her family to Brussels. She returned to Ireland to study for a degree in English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1995. From 1990, she worked as a freelance journalist, contributing to the Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, the Guardian, the Scotsman and the Times. She lives in Castletownshend, west Cork, and writes full time. She has been named one of the Observer's 21 writers for the 21st century. Shadow-box is her first novel.

(Shadow-box is published by Bloomsbury)

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