Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is a novelist from Northern Ireland.
[1] Madden was born in Toome, County Antrim and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School in Magherafelt.
She proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and then to the University of East Anglia (MA).
She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods in both France and Italy.
[6] She has been described as "a pivotal voice in Northern Irish writing, her understated yet complex fictions often touching on the religious and political turmoil of the North".