Aifric Campbell is an Irish people writer. Her novel On the Floor has been longlisted for the Orange Prize.[ 2012 Archive Women's Prize for Fiction ] Her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian,[ Aifric Campbell's Top Ten Jobs in Fiction", The Guardian, February 24, 2010.] Daily Telegraph, Tatler, ELLE, and Sunday Business Post.
Biography
Campbell attended a convent school in Dublin. While still a young girl she was the owner of Táin Mór, which won the Irish Greyhound Derby in 1976. She worked as an
au pair in
Sweden,
[ "The self-limiting factors in women examined", Irish Examiner, March 24, 2012.] where she graduated from the University of Gothenburg in Linguistics.
She worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley for 13 years, where she became the first female managing director of a trading team,[ "Former Morgan Stanley trader targets top literary prize", Financial News.] an experience which inspired her novel On the Floor.[ Shelf Awareness interview]
She studied psychotherapy and creative writing, at the University of East Anglia.
She lives in Sussex with her husband and her son.
Bibliography
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The Semantics of Murder, Serpent's Tail, 2008, . A novel inspired by the unsolved murder of Richard Montague.
[ "The Semantics of Murder", Publishers Weekly, 08/31/2009.]
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The Loss Adjustor (2010). A novel about a woman working as a loss adjustor in London while dealing with her own personal loss.
[ "Review: The Loss Adjustor by Aifric Campbell", The Irish Independent, February 20, 2010.]
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On the Floor (2013). A novel about a woman working as an investment banker in early 1990s London.
[ "On the Floor", Publishers Weekly, 04/08/2013.]
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"Larry, Lay Down" included in the anthology New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor (2011)
Film
Campbell wrote the voice-over script for the film C.K., directed by Barbara Visser.
[ IMDB]
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