- Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell (Born 1981) is a Northern Irish
playwright andnovelist .Born in
Belfast in 1981 in what she later described as into "one of the darkest and most turbulent years of the Troubles: the year the hunger strikes began, when within a few months Bobby Sands and nine others died; when things seemed to be spiralling irrevocably out of control", [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/belfast-revisited-lucy-caldwell-returns-to-a-brighter-city-430551.html Independent (2 January 2007): Belfast revisited: Lucy Caldwell returns to a brighter city] ] she studied atStrathearn School and later atQueens' College, Cambridge . Caldwell left 'boring, introverted' Belfast in 1999.In June 2004, Caldwell's first short play, "The River" was performed at the
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama , and subsequently theEdinburgh Fringe Festival . The play won her the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. Caldwell spent time as writer-on-attachment to theNational Theatre in 2005 [ [http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article.aspx?art_id=17 Culture Northern Ireland Profile: Lucy Caldwell] ] . Her first full-length play, "Leaves", won the 2006George Devine Award . In 2007 it was produced by theDruid Theatre Company [ [http://www.druidtheatre.com/press.php?id=87 "Leaves" at Druid Theatre Workshop] ] , and directed by Garry Hynes. The play premiered inGalway before transferring to theRoyal Court Theatre [ [http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/archive_detail.asp?play=468 "Leaves" at Royal Court Theatre] ] -Caldwell's first novel, "Where They Were Missed", was published in March 2006 and short-listed for the 2006 EDS [Dylan Thomas Prize] [ [http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/longlist-2006.htm Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2006] ] and nominated for the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn award.
References
External links
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/belfast-revisited-lucy-caldwell-returns-to-a-brighter-city-430551.html Profile of Lucy Caldwell in the Independent (2 January 2007)]
* [http://www.lucycaldwell.com Official Website]
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