Martina Devlin


Martina Devlin is an Irish award-winning columnist and novelist.

Biography

Devlin was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone. She worked in Fleet street for seven years before moving to Dublin. In England, she took a journalism qualification, followed by a degree in English Literature at the University of London. After working as a journalist for the Press Association, Devlin went to Trinity College, Dublin where she completed an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature. Afterwards, she combined working as a journalist in Dublin and writing novels. Devlin does not write by genre. Three of her books are historical fiction and another is speculative fiction.
She was vice-chairperson of the Irish Writers Centre and holds a diploma in company direction from the Institute of Directors.

Awards

Devlin has won numerous awards for both her writing and journalism.
She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book of the Year awards. Her non fiction account of the Irish financial collapse, Banksters, co-authored with David Murphy, topped the best seller list for eight weeks.

Fiction

She adapted her short story 'What Would The Countess Say?' as a play, staged in Ireland in 2019 to make the centenary of Countess Markievicz's appointment as the world's second female minister - and the first to be democratically elected.

Non-fiction