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Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer. Her novel On the Floor has been longlisted for the Orange Prize.[1] Her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian,[2] Daily Telegraph, Tatler, ELLE, and Sunday Business Post.

Biography

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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 pairinSweden,[3] where she graduated from the University of Göteborg 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,[4] an experience which inspired her novel On the Floor.[5]

She studied psychotherapy and creative writing, at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Sussex with her husband and her son.[6]

Bibliography

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Film

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Campbell wrote the voice-over script for the film C.K., directed by Barbara Visser.[10]

References

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  • ^ "The self-limiting factors in women examined", Irish Examiner, March 24, 2012.
  • ^ "Former Morgan Stanley trader targets top literary prize", Financial News.
  • ^ Shelf Awareness interview
  • ^ "Serpent's Tail : Authors". Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  • ^ "The Semantics of Murder", Publishers Weekly, 08/31/2009.
  • ^ "Review: The Loss Adjustor by Aifric Campbell", The Irish Independent, February 20, 2010.
  • ^ "On the Floor", Publishers Weekly, 04/08/2013.
  • ^ IMDB
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