{{short description|Irish author|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Kathleen Ferguson''' (born 19 August 1958 in Tamnaherin, County Londonderry)<ref name=Levy2004>{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=Eric P |title=The Mastering of Selfhood in Kathleen Ferguson's The Maid's Tale |journal=New Hibernia Review |date=2004 |volume=8 |pages=93–106 |id={{Project MUSE|169612}} |doi=10.1353/nhr.2004.0027 |s2cid=145202690 }}</ref> is an Irish author known for ''The Maid's Tale''<ref name="Foster2006">{{cite book|last=Foster|first=John Wilson|title=The Cambridge companion to the Irish novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2uvkN2taiQC&pg=PA268|accessdate=9 November 2010|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-86191-5|page=268}}</ref> which won the 1995 ''Irish Times'' Literature Prize for fiction.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tabor |first1=Mary B. W. |title=Book Notes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/11/books/book-notes-055220.html |work=The New York Times |date=11 October 1995 }}</ref> Educated at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. It was praised by the London ''Independent'' for its "wonderful candour" and the "lovely Derry idiom".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Blake|first1=Robin|title=Paperbacks|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/paperbacks-1615003.html|work=The Independent (UK)|date=8 April 1995}}</ref>
Kathleen Ferguson is married and lives in Rome, Italy.<ref name=Levy2004/>
==Published works== *{{cite book|title=The Maid's Tale|year=1994|publisher=Torc|isbn=978-1-898142-04-1}} *''Waiting for Dad'' (1998) *''Storia di una perpetua'' (2001)<ref>[https://cat.librarything.com/author/fergusonkathleen Library Thing catalogue]</ref> *''Xuanzang: Chinese Hero'' (2005)<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76563056-xuanzang GoodReads website, ''Xuanzang: Chinese Hero'']</ref>
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