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Mary Ethna Black is a globe-trotting doctor and writer from Lambeg, a village on the banks of Belfast's River Lagan. She's married to a Dalmatian sailor and fellow doctor from a Bosnian Partisan family who saved her life from pirates in the Bay of Bengal in 1987. As Yugoslavia disintegrated, they worked on all sides of the conflict. After the war ended, they emigrated to Australia but were drawn back to help rebuild the Balkans in 1999. Since turning to writing in 2017, Black has won the 2024 London Independent Story Prize, the 2023 Globe Soup Short Story Competition, the 2021 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair and the 2021 Fish Publishing memoir prize, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for multiple other awards.
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