Catherine Dunne (born 1954) is an Irish writer. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher. In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for The Things We Know, which was published in Italy as Quel che ora sappiamo.
As of July 2016[update], Dunne had written ten novels and a work of non-fiction. Her first novel, published in 1997, was In the Beginning, which was described in Publishers Weekly as "an auspicious debut".