Oonagh Devitt Tremblay was born in Paris, France and raised in Toronto, Canada. She has lived in the UK since 2018. she worked at The Times Literary Supplement for two years and ran their twenty questions series.

You can read some of her published writing in the TLS, Frieze, The Financial Times, Literary Review, (Parentheses) Review, Fallow Media and The London Magazine. 

She completed a Master of Philosophy in 18th Century and Romantic Studies at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her dissertation focused on the links between epistolarity and trauma in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa. She completed a B.A. at the University of Toronto.

She writes novels in pockets of stolen time. SHE HAS TWO MANUSCRIPTS WRITTEN AND IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A NON-FICTION PROJECT. 

Review of Virtue and Rosalind by Anne Serre (TRANSLATED BY Mark Hutchinson), FINANCIAL TIMES - Anne Serre’s reflections in a hall-of-mirrors 

Review of Before I Forget by Anne Pauly (TRANSLATED BY Dina Leifer), Fallow Media - Before I Forget

Review of How to Make a Woman by Marie Darrieussecq (TRANSLATED BY Penny Hueston), FINANCIAL TIMES - How to Make a Woman — a tale of two friendships, heartbreakingly observed

ESSAY on Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, (Parentheses) Review - This Must Be the Place: on Gaining Ground, Landscape and the Divided Woman in the Canadian Canon

Review of A Girl Left the Room by Ulrikka S. Gernes (Translated by Caroline Waight), Literary Review - Fast Train

Review of Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth (Translated by Charlotte Barslund), THE TLS - The body understands

Review of Sentimental Value DIRECTED by Joachim Trier, THE TLS - Playing in the dollhouse

Review of A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews - Westward Glances: Home and the Crisis of Language in the Work of Miriam Toews

Review of Will There Ever Be ANother You by Patricia Lockwood, THE London Magazine - Will There Ever Be Another You

Review of AIRLESS SPACES by Shulamith Firestone, THE TLS - The incapacity of The System

Review of Bread and MILK by Karolina Ramqvist (Translated by Saskia Vogel), THE TLS - Insatiable desires

Review of Friends and lovers by Nolwenn Le Blevennec (Translated by Madeleine Rogers), THE TLS - A thousand tiny thefts

Review of LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette (Translated by Kate Briggs), literary review - Love in a Time of Choler

Review of THE ACCIDENTALS by Guadalupe Nettel (Translated by Rosalind Harvey), the TLS -not Like The OThers

review of CORRESPONDENCE PRIMARILY ON PAMELA AND CLARISSA, 1732–1749 by Louise Curran, George Justice and Sören Hammerschmidt, the TLS - customer feedback

review of my good bright wolf by sarah moss, the TLS - Winning the hunger game

review of My Battle of Hastings by Xiaolu Guo, the TLS - Hastings and Haestingas

review of CoMmitted by Suzanne Scanlon, the TLS - Just what the doctors ordered

review of I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson, the TLS - Lines Crossed

review of Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin, Frieze  - Unconscious Desires

review of Two Hours by Alba Arikha, the TLS - Reassembling the Fragments

review of Bluestockings: The first women’s movement by Susannah Gibson, the TLS - A Right to A Negative

review of How to Be Somebody Else by Miranda Pountney, the TLS -Trying on a Life

SELECTED WORK

Reading Around the Margins Podcast - A letter outwards with Oonagh Devitt Tremblay

ON BOOKS FOR babaà - ON BOOKS WITH OONAGH DEVITT TREMBLAY