Antonia Logue is an Irish novelist from

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. Logue was born in Derry in 1972. She is the only daughter of Hugh Logue (politician and economist) and Anne Logue (a lawyer). She grew up in the village of Park, near Derry, but also lived in Brussels, for a time. She won her first literary prize aged 10. Logue attended

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and joined the faculty at Columbia College in Chicago in 2002. Logue started her career as a journalist. Her first novel, ''Shadow-Box'', won ''

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'' 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

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, Columbia College, and the

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, and held fellowships at

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, and CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at

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. She was a visiting fellow at

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. Logue lives in

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with her husband and two children.

External links

United Artists (A.P. Watt Literary Agency)

Bloomsbury Author Information

Then and Now Antonia Logue (Irish Times)

(IWP Antonia Logue)

References

Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge Irish novelists Irish expatriates in Belgium Scholars and academics from County Londonderry Living people International Writing Program alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ireland-writer-stub