Antonia Logue
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Antonia Logue is an Irish novelist from Park, County Londonderry
, Northern Ireland
. She grew up in Brussels
, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University.
Her first novel, Shadow-Box, won The Irish Times
Literature Award for an Irish novel and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has been a faculty member in Creative Writing at Oxford University, Columbia College
, and the University of Chicago
, and held fellowships at St John's College Cambridge, Wolfson College Cambridge, and CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at Cambridge University.
She was named one of The Observer
s 21 writers for the 21st century.
She is a Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, and lives in Oxford with her husband.
Park, County Londonderry
Park is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains near the village of Claudy, some fifteen miles southwest of Derry...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
. She grew up in Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University.
Her first novel, Shadow-Box, won The Irish Times
The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...
Literature Award for an Irish novel and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has been a faculty member in Creative Writing at Oxford University, Columbia College
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
, and the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, and held fellowships at St John's College Cambridge, Wolfson College Cambridge, and CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at Cambridge University.
She was named one of The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
s 21 writers for the 21st century.
She is a Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, and lives in Oxford with her husband.