Literature

Christine Dwyer Hickey

Christine Dwyer Hickey has published seven novels, one short story collection and a full length play. The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year 2012 and was nominated for the International IMPAC award. Tatty was nominated for The Orange Prize and was one of the 50 Irish Novels of the Decade. Last Train from Liguria was nominated for the Prix L’Européen de Littérature.

Her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines world­wide and have won several awards most recently the Irish Short Story Award at the Irish Book Awards 2017. Her first play Snow Angels premiered at the Project Arts Centre. Her work has been widely translated.

Her novel The Lives of Women was published in the US in May 2018 by Dalkey Archive Books and her latest novel, The Narrow Land, will be published in Spring 2019 by Atlantic Books (UK).

 

Photo credit: Deirdre Power.

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