Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

"Sweet, tangy, cool, fresh, wild, tinged with an exotic flavour, like Turkish Delight, attar of roses, some flavour that is a perfume from a golden-covered volume of fantastic stories, a flavour that is a confirmation, for her, of the jewel-studded world that awaits exploration, that in all its richness is waiting for her to step into, to experience, sometime soon, when she grows up".

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
--The Dancers Dancing

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin in 1954. Her works include Blood and Water, The Bray House, Eating Women is Not Recommended, and The Inland Ice. She has also written plays and children's books. (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's latest collection of short stories "The Pale Gold of Alaska" and other stories were published by Blackstaff Press in September, 2000). She received Arts Council Bursaries in Literature in 1986 and 1998, and her prizes include the Bisto Book of the Year Award, the Readers Association of Ireland Award, the Stewart Parker Award, and an Oireachtas award. She works as a librarian in the National Library of Ireland and lives in County Dublin with her husband and two children.

About the Author:

Interview
The Orange Prize for Fiction, 2000
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Publications:

The Bray House (Attic 1990)
Eating Women is Not Recommended (Attic 1991)
The Inland Ice (Blackstaff 1997)
Voices on the Wind: Women Poets of the Celtic Revival (New Island 1995)
Virgins and Hyacinths: The Attic Book of Fiction (Caroline Walsh, editor); a collection of short story writing by modern Irish women writers.

Published under Elizabeth O'Hara:

Hiring Fair
Blaeberry Sunday
Penny Farthing Sally

Awards:

2 Bisto Book Awards
Readers Association of Ireland Award (for children's books)
Stewart Parker Award (for drama)
Listowel Writers Week; award for poetry
2 Arts Councils Bursaries in literature

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