Profile
Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, New York, and San Francisco. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year 1996 in her native Ireland at the prestigious Listowel Writers’ Week. Houghton Mifflin released Breakfast in Babylon in the U.S. in 1997. More Bread Or I’ll Appear, her second novel was published internationally in 1999. Emer studied painting in New York and has had a sell-out solo show of her paintings at the Origin Gallery in Harcourt St, Dublin. Her new book is Baby Zero, published March 07. She has just completed her third short film Unaccompanied. She produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut NUTS in 2007. Emer was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. This year she had an acclaimed solo show at the Origin Gallery, running from February to April. She now lives in the jungles of Co. Meath, Ireland. In 2008 She was listed in Social & Personal magazine’s special art issue as one of the rising, young artists in which to invest.
