Clare O’Dea
Clare O’Dea is the author of Voting Day, a Fairlight Moderns novella and Before the Leaves Fall publishing on 23 of October 2025.
Originally from Dublin, Clare has lived in Switzerland since 2003, on the invisible line where the French- and German-speaking cultures meet. Clare has had a varied media career in Ireland and Switzerland, with a freelance stint in Russia. She worked as a journalist for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and The Irish Times, among others. Clare has a degree in Russian and French from Trinity College Dublin. She was the founding director of a festival of Irish culture in Fribourg, Switzerland in 2023. She is the author of two non-fiction books and one previous novel, Voting Day.
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