Martin Malone (Author)
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Martin Malone is an Irish novelist and short story writer. His novel, ''The Broken Cedar'' (2003), was nominated for the
International Dublin Literary Award The International Dublin Literary Award ( ga, Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. ...
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
and was shortlisted for an Irish Fiction Award. His first novel, ''Us'' (2000), won the John B Keane/Sunday Independent Award. His story, “The Mango War”, the title story of his 2009 short story collection won the RTÉ
Francis MacManus Award Francis MacManus (8 March 1909 – 27 November 1965) was an Irish novelist and broadcaster. Life and writings Born in Kilkenny, MacManus was educated in the local Christian Brothers school and later at St. Patrick's College, Dublin and Universit ...
RTE Radio 1 Francis MacManus Award Archive 2005
/ref> in 2004. Malone has also won the Killarney International Short Story Prize and has been on two occasions shortlisted for both a Hennessy Award and a PJ O'Connor Award. As a member of the Irish Army Military Police, Malone served five tours of duty with the
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( ar, قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان, he, כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL ( ar, يونيفيل, he, יוניפי״ל), is a UN peacekeeping m ...
and one with the
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. He has written a memoir of his time in the army, called ''The Lebanon Diaries'' (2007), and his experiences in the
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have greatly informed his literary work. BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, RTE Radio 1 and Lyric FM have broadcast his short stories. He was a runner-up in the BBC World Service Short Story Competition. His stories have appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine, The Fiddlehead Can, The Malahat Review Can, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Stand UK, Literary Orphans USA, The Cortland Review USA, The Bridport Prize Anthology, Best Phoenix Irish Short Stories, The Sunday Tribune...His prose featured in the National Art Gallery's 'Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art.' His work is published by Simon & Schuster UK, Maverick House, Poolbeg Press and New Island. Martin Malone lives in
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Works


Novels

*Black Rose Days*(2016) ''Us'' Modern Irish Classic(2015). ''Valley of the Peacock Angel''(2013) ''The Only Glow of the Day'' (2010) - which features the lives of the
Wrens of the Curragh The Wrens of the Curragh were a community of women in nineteenth-century Ireland who lived outside society on the plains of Kildare, many of whom were sex workers at Curragh Camp. Records date back to the 1840s of women living on the Curragh near ...
''The Silence of the Glasshouse'' (2008) ''The Broken Cedar'' (2003) ''After Kafra'' (2001) ''Us'' (2000) "Iapetus, '81"


Short stories

''The Mango War and Other Stories'' (2009) ''Deadly Confederacies & Other Stories'' (2014). Nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Award 2012 for his short story about the Kurdistan atrocities in 1988, 'Valley of the Peacock Angel.' ''This Cruel Station: Stories'' (2017) http://www.doirepress.com/writers/m_z/martin_malone/ ''Bone Deep'' (2018)


Memoir

''The Lebanon Diaries'' (2007)


Stage plays

''Rosanna Nightwalker: The Wren of the Curragh''


Radio plays

''Song of the Small Bird'' ''The Devil’s Garden'' ''Rosanna Nightwalker''


References

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