Biographie de Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer from Galway in the West of Ireland. Savage Her Reply is her tenth book. Her collection of dark and witchy fairytale retellings, Tangleweed and Brine (Little Island Books), won Book of the Year at the 2018 Children's Books Ireland awards and Young Adult Book of the Year at the 2017 Irish Book Awards. Other books for young adults include Perfectly Preventable Deaths (Hot Key, 2019) and, with Little Island Books, Needlework (Honour Award for Fiction, Children's Books Ireland awards 2017), the Primrose Leary trilogy (Prim Improper, Improper Order and Primperfect – the first YA book to be shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature in 2015).
For younger readers, she has written three books in the Nightmare Club series. Deirdre also writes short fiction and poetry, which has been published in places like Banshee, The Penny Dreadful, Mslexia and the Dublin Review. Her play Wake was performed by No Ropes theatre company in February 2019.