Occupation Writer, Academic Nationality Irish | Name Eilis Dhuibhne Role Novelist | |
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Pen name Eilis AlmquistElizabeth O\'Hara Genre Novel, Play, Short Story Awards Bisto Book of the Year, Bisto Merit Awards Books The dancers dancing, The Bray house, The Shelter of Neighbours, Midwife to the fairies, Fox - swallow - scarecrow Similar People Clare Boylan, Maeve Binchy, Deirdre Purcell, Emma Donoghue, Kate O\'Riordan | ||
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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne ([ˈeː.lʲiːʃ nʲiː ˈɣɪvʲ.nʲə]; born 22 February 1954), also known as Eilis Almquist and Elizabeth O'Hara, is an Irish novelist and short story writer who writes both in Irish and English. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Biography
Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin in 1954. She attended University College Dublin (UCD), where she studied Pure English, then Folklore. She was awarded the UCD Entrance scholarship for English, and two post graduate scholarships in Folklore. In 1978-9 she studied at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1982 was awarded a PhD from the National University of Ireland (NUI). She has worked in the Department of Irish Folklore in UCD, and for many years as a curator in the National Library of Ireland. Also a teacher of Creative Writing, she has been Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin and is currently Writer Fellow at UCD. She is a member of Aosdána.
Ní Dhuibhne was married to the Swedish folklorist Bo Almqvist (died 2013) and has three children: Marja, Ragnar and Olaf.
Further information on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's work may be found in Rebecca Pelan, ed, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: Perspectives. Galway, Arlen House, 2009.
Awards
List of works
Produced by Amharclann de Hide and first performed at the Peacock, Dublin, 1995;
Produced by Amharclann de Hide and first performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, in 1996;
Produced by the Abbey and performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in 1998.