- Emer Martin
Emer Martin (born 1968 in
Dublin ) [cite web |url=http://www.irishwriters-online.com/emermartin.html|title=Emer Martin|accessdate=2007-10-22|work=Irish Writers Online] is an Irishnovel list, painter and film-maker who has also lived inParis ,London , theMiddle East , and theUnited States .Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon, described the life of a young Irishwoman in the
Paris ian underworld [cite web|url=http://dalkeyarchive.com/review/1194/breakfast-in-babylon-by-emer-martin-reviewed-by-eamonn-wall|title= Review of Breakfast in Babylon|accessdate=2007-10-22|author=Eamonn Wall|work=The Review of Contemporary Fiction] and won Book of the Year at the 1996 Listowel Writers' Week. [cite web|url=http://www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story.asp?j=25138&cat=entertainment|title=Author joins publisher for big event in Kerry|date=2007-09-27 |accessdate=2007-10-22|work=The Kingdom] More Bread Or I'll Appear, her second novel, was published internationally in 1999. [cite web|url=http://dalkeyarchive.com/review/1406/more-bread-or-ill-appear-by-emer-martin-reviewed-by-george-obrien|title= Review of More Bread Or I'll Appear|accessdate=2007-10-22|author=George O’Brien|work=The Review of Contemporary Fiction] Her most recent book is Baby Zero, published in March 2007.Martin studied painting in New York and has had a sell-out solo show of her paintings at the
Origin Gallery in Harcourt St, Dublin.Fact|date=October 2007 She recently completed her third short film Unaccompanied. She producedIrvine Welsh 's directorial debut NUTS in 2007. She was awarded theGuggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives in Co. Meath, Ireland.References
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