Éilís
Ni Dhuibhne was born in Dublin in 1954. She holds a BA in English
and an M Phil in Medieval Studies from UCD. She went to Denmark
(University of Copenhagen) on a folklore scholarship and in
1982 she received a PhD in Folklore.
She is a novelist, a short
story writer and a dramatist. She was elected a member of
Aosdána in 2003. Her work The Dancers Dancing
was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000.
Cois Life published two of her plays, Milseog an tSamhraidh
& Dún na mBan Trí Thine, in 1997.
Other plays by Éilis are The Nettle Spinner
and the radio plays Casadh an Taperecorder and Bábóga.
She has won many awards amongst which are The Stewart Parker
Award, The Bisto Book of the Year Award, bursaries from the
Arts Council in 1986 and 1998. Her books won Oireachtas prizes
in 2000, 2006 and 2008 respectively. Both Hurlamboc
and Dún an Airgid were shortlisted for Irish
language Book of the Year/Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin.
Hurlamboc earned an IBBY Award in 2007 (International
Board on Books for Young People).
Her main works in English are
the novels The Bray House, The Dancers Dancing
and Fox Swallow Scarecrow. She has written several
novels for children too - The Hiring Fair,Blueberry
Sunday, Penny Farthing Sally, and The Sparkling
Rain. Her English short story collections are Blood
and Water, Eating Women is Not Recommended,The
Inland Ice, The Pale Gold of Alaska, and Midwife
to the Fairies. Her work has been translated to German,
French, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Slovenian amongst others.
She worked as a librarian in
the National Library for many years and now teaches on the
MA in Creative Writing in UCD.
Dún
an Airgid (Cois Life, 2008)
Fox Swallow Scarecrow (Blackstaff Press, 2007)
Cailíní Beaga Ghleann na mBláth (Cois Life,2003)
Dúnmharú sa Daingean,(Dublin, Cois Life, 2000)
The Dancers Dancing (Blackstaff Press/Headline, 2000)
The Bray House (Attic Press, 1990)
Milseog
an tSamhraidh agus Dún na mBan Trí Thine (Cois
Life, 1998)
Midwife
to the Fairies (Attic Press, 2003)
The Pale Gold of Alaska (Blackstaff Press/Headline, 2000)
The Inland Ice and Other Stories (Blackstaff Press, 1997)
Blood and Water [and Other Stories], (Attic Press, 1988)
Eating Women is not Recommended (Attic, 1992)
Hurlamboc (Cois Life, 2006)
The Sparkling Rain (Poolbeg, 2003)
Penny-farthing Sally (Poolbeg, 1996)
Blackberry Sunday (Poolbeg, 1994)
The Hiring Fair (Poolbeg, 1993)
The Uncommon Cormorant (Poolbeg, 1990)
WB
Yeats. Works and Days (National Library of Ireland, 2006).
Voices on the Wind, Women Poets of the Celtic Twilight (Ní
Dhuibhne, E. eag. New Island Books, 1995)
Viking Ale, Festscrift for Prof. Bo Almqvist (Ní Dhuibhne,
E. & Ó Catháin, S. eag. Boethius Press, 1991)
