Years That Followed (Dunne)

Author Bio
• Birth—1954
• Where—Dublin, Ireland
• Education—B.A., Trinity College
• Awards—Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize (Italy)
• Currently—lives in Dublin, Ireland


Catherine Dunne is the Irish author of ten novels including, most recently, The Years That Followed (2016). Her novel 2013, The Things We Know Now, won the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. In 2015, Dunne was recently long-listed for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into several languages.

She studied English and Spanish at Trinity College in Dublin and went on to teach, publishing her first novel, In the Beginning, in 1977. The Years that Followed is her U.S. debut. Dunne lives in Dublin. (Adapted from the publisher.)