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SHORT BIO
Michelle Gallen grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles a few miles from the border. She studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and Publishing at Stirling University. Her debut novel, Big Girl, Small Town was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Factory Girls, won the Comedy Women in Print award and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. Both books are being adapted for TV.
Photograph: Brideen Baxter and Deci Gallen/Simple Tapestry
MEDIUM BIo
Michelle Gallen was born in Northern Ireland in the mid-1970s and grew up during the Troubles a few miles from the border between what she was told was the “Free” State and the “United” Kingdom. She studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin, then survived what doctors now suspect was autoimmune encephalitis in her mid-twenties. Her debut novel, Big Girl, Small Town was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Factory Girls, won the Comedy Women in Print award and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. Both books are being adapted for TV. She lives in Dublin with her husband and kids.
Photograph: Brideen Baxter and Deci Gallen/Simple Tapestry
Photograph: Brideen Baxter and Deci Gallen/Simple Tapestry
LIFE’S STORY
Michelle Gallen was born in Tyrone in the 1970s and grew up during the Troubles a few miles from what she was told was the “Free” State and the “United” Kingdom. She studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and Publishing at Stirling University. She won several prestigious prizes as a young writer before surviving what doctors now suspect was autoimmune encephalitis in her mid-twenties. Her debut Big Girl, Small Town was shortlisted for several major awards and is being adapted for TV by BBC production company Lookout Point. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Factory Girls won the Comedy Women in Print award and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. It’s being adapted for television by Deadpan Pictures. She lives in Dublin with her husband and kids.
Awards: Big Girl Small Town was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, an Irish Book Award, the Comedy Women in Print Award, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the Kate O'Brien Award. It was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje prize. Factory Girls won the Comedy Women in Print award and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award.
