When All Is Said - Anne Griffin
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Anne Griffin was born in Dublin in 1969. She received a BA History from UCD. Over the following eight years, She worked for Waterstones in Dublin and London. She left the bookselling trade to undertake a Post Graduate Diploma in Community and Youth Work in Maynooth University. She has worked with various charities over the last twenty years including Women\\u2019s Aid, Youth Work Ireland and the Dyslexia Association of Ireland.She began writing in 2013, and in 2015 undertook an MA in Creative Writing in UCD studying under James Ryan, \\xc9ilis N\\xed Dhuibhne, Frank McGuinness, Lia Mills, Paul Perry and Anne Enright.She was awarded the John McGahern Award for Literature, recognising previous and current works. She has been shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Awards with her short story \\u2018Grace\\u2019; shortlisted for the Sunday Business Post Short Story Award for \\u2018Some Tiny Clue\\u2019 and for the Benedict Kiely Competition with \\u2018Mr. Henry\\u2019. She was a recipient of an Arts Grant through Westmeath County Council.Her short story work has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Crann\\xf3g, The Lonely Crowd, Ogham Stone, The Incubator, The Weekend Read For Books\\u2019 Sake, and Bunker, a collection of short stories published by Cork County Libraries.Her debut novel \\u2018When All Is Said\\u2019 is published by Sceptre in the UK and Ireland and by Thomas Dunne Books in the US and Canada. It will also be published by Rowohlt Verlag, Germany, Delcourt, France, Harper Collins Holland, Netherlands, Wydawnictwo Czarna, Poland, and Tyto Alba, Lithuania, Minoas SA, Greece, Pioneer Books, Hungary and Penn Publishing, Israel.
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