Anne Devlin (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Anne Devlin (writer)

British writer

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Profession: screenwriter, writer, playwright, short story writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Anne Devlin (writer)

  • Anne Devlin (born 13 Sept 1951) is a short story writer, playwright and screenwriter born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • She was a teacher from 1974–1978 and started writing fiction in 1976 in Germany.
  • Having lived in London for a decade, she returned to Belfast in 2007.She is the daughter of Paddy Devlin, a Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and later a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
  • She was raised in Belfast.
  • In January 1969, while a student at the New University of Ulster, Devlin joined a civil rights march from Belfast to Derry, organised by the People's Democracy.
  • At Burntollet Bridge, a few miles from Derry, the march was attacked by loyalists.
  • Devlin was struck on the head, knocked unconscious, fell into the river and was brought to hospital suffering from concussion.
  • The march was echoed in her 1994 play After Easter.
  • Devlin subsequently left Northern Ireland for England.
  • She was visiting lecturer in playwriting at the University of Birmingham in 1987, and a writer in residence at Lund University, Sweden, in 1990.In 1982 she won the Hennessy Literary Award for her short story, Passages, which was adapted for television as A Woman Calling.
  • She has written for the stage - Ourselves Alone (first performed in 1985) and After Easter (first performed in 1994 and for which she won the Lloyds Playwright of the Year).
  • Devlin has also written the screenplays for Titanic Town, which is adapted from a novel by Mary Costello, and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and the BBC serial The Rainbow (1988).
  • Her short fiction was collected as The Way-Paver (1986).
  • In 1984 she received the Samuel Beckett Award, and, in 1986, she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
  • She also wrote the screenplay for The Rainbow, produced by the BBC in 1988.
  • A major radio play written by Devlin, entitled The Forgotten, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.

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