Christine Dwyer Hickey Explained

Christine Dwyer Hickey
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:Irish
Period:1991 – present
Genre:Novel, short story, theatre
Subject:Family relationships, addiction, Irish society, effect of war on society, Italian and American society
Spouse:Denis. J Hickey
Children:One son, two daughters

Christine Dwyer Hickey (born 1960) is an Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright. She has won several awards, including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year[1] and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.[2] Her writing was described by Madeleine Kingsley of the Jewish Chronicle as "depicting the parts of human nature that are oblique, suppressed and rarely voiced".[3]

Early life

Christine Dwyer was born in Dublin in 1958, the only girl of four siblings. After her parents' marriage broke up, her father became the chief carer of a somewhat chaotic family.[4] When Hickey was ten years old, she went to Mount Sackville boarding school. She described her years there as a time of stability and creativity.[5] Her childhood has informed some of her work particularly Tatty, a story of a marriage breakup from the child's point of view. It was described in a review published by Independent News & Media as a novel that is both "harrowing" and "immensely funny", one that "does not preach about the horrors of alcoholism [but] allows the reader to experience at first hand the confusion, hurt and despair the children of alcoholic parents suffer".

As a child she spent much time with her father and often went to the races with him.[6] She used this experience in her 1991 short story, Across the Excellent Grass which won the Powers Gold Short Story Competition at Listowel Writers’ Week. She won the same competition the following year with Bridie’s Wedding and was also a prize winner in The Observer/short story competition with Teatro La Fenice.

Work

The Dublin Trilogy was published between 1995 and 2000 as The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker by Marino Books and was republished by New Island in 2006–07.[7] The trilogy is the story of a Dublin family between the years 1913–1958.

Hickey published Tatty in 2004 followed in 2009 by the Last Train from Liguria, set in Italy during the fascist era and 1990s Dublin. The Cold Eye of Heaven was published by Atlantic UK in 2011 and in the US by Dalkey Archive.

A short story collection, The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories was published in 2012 and Snow Angels, a play, was published in 2014 following its run at the Project Arts Theatre.

Hickey's novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award in 2012,[1] was nominated for the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award,[8] and shortlisted at the 2011 Irish Book Awards for novel of the year.[9]

In 2018, she won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel The Narrow Land.[2] Other novels by Hickey have also been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Prix Européen de Littérature, the 50 Best Books of the Decade and the Hughes & Hughes Novel of the Year.[10] Her short stories have won several awards, most recently the Writing.ie Short Story Award for Back to Bones which was also longlisted for The EFG Sunday Times Short Story Competition 2017. The Lives of Women was published in 2015 and in the US in 2018. Tatty has been chosen as the Dublin: One City One Book for 2020.[11]

She is an elected member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Arts.[12]

Hickey has cited James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as her writing influences.[13] A review in the Irish Times compared her short stories to Joyce's Dubliners,[14] and the poet John Montague has likened her work to that of Katherine Mansfield.[15] [16]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Drama

Awards

Among other awards, Hickey has won or been nominated for:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Christine Dwyer Hickey And Anthony Cronin Win At Writers Week . writersweek.ie . 30 May 2012 .
  2. Web site: Christine Dwyer Hickey wins the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for The Narrow Land. . walterscottprize.co.uk . 12 June 2020 .
  3. Web site: Book Review - Menaced by Mussolini . thejc.com . The Jewish Chronicle . 26 September 2018.
  4. Web site: Interviews - Careless by Nature . writing.ie. 4 May 2011 .
  5. Web site: Book review: The Lives of Women . irishexaminer.com . 25 April 2015 .
  6. Web site: Entertainment - Books - Christine's Italian job . independent.ie. 30 May 2009.
  7. Web site: The Gatemaker - New Island Books . New Island Books . 26 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180926173322/http://newisland.ie/product/the-gatemaker/ . 26 September 2018 . dead .
  8. Web site: Dublin Literary Award. dublinliteraryaward.ie . 3 September 2013 .
  9. Web site: Irish Book Awards Shortlists Announced . Irish Publishing News . 21 October 2011 .
  10. Web site: Literature Ireland, Author database. literatureireland.com .
  11. Web site: Dublin: One City One Book. dublinonecityonebook.ie.
  12. Web site: Aosdana - Members - Dwyer Hickey . aosdana.artscouncil.ie.
  13. News: Christine Dwyer Hickey: my influences, from Mrs Dalloway to Janice Galloway . The Irish Times . 26 September 2018.
  14. News: A fistful of fine family stories . The Irish Times . 26 September 2018.
  15. News: John Montague on Christine Dwyer Hickey: 'a rich and varied oeuvre' . The Irish Times . 26 September 2018.
  16. News: In praise of Christine Dwyer Hickey, by John Montague . The Irish Times . 26 September 2018.
  17. Web site: Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey - Independent.ie . Independent.ie . 23 November 2007 . 26 September 2018 . en.
  18. Web site: Book - Tatty - Christine Dwyer Hickey . Worcester News . 12 October 2005 . 26 September 2018 . en.
  19. Web site: Davies . Stevie . The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey – review . the Guardian . 26 September 2018 . en . 18 November 2011.
  20. Web site: The Cold Eye of Heaven, By Christine Dwyer Hickey . The Independent . 17 September 2011 . 26 September 2018.
  21. News: Reasons to be grumpy . The Irish Times . 26 September 2018.
  22. Web site: Book Review: The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey . www.nwreview.com . 26 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180926170326/http://www.nwreview.com/reviews/the-cold-eye-of-heaven.html . 26 September 2018 . dead .
  23. Web site: O'Loughlin . Vanessa . The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christina Dwyer-Hickey . Writing.ie . 26 September 2018 . 16 September 2012.
  24. Web site: The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey book review: Sorry then . The Independent . May 2015 . 26 September 2018.
  25. Web site: The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey is the new Irish Times Book Club pick . Irish Times . irishtimes.com . 26 September 2018.
  26. Web site: The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey, book review: A . The Independent . 12 April 2015 . 26 September 2018.
  27. Web site: Christine Dwyer Hickey, 'I Lost a Kidney and Gained a Novel' . Irish Times . 9 March 2019.
  28. Web site: Literature Ireland Christine Dwyer Hickey . www.literatureireland.com . 26 September 2018 . en.
  29. News: Four Irish on £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award longlist . The Irish Times . 26 September 2018.
  30. Web site: Irish Book Awards . 26 September 2018.
  31. Web site: The Great Irish Novel departs the oul'sod. PressReader. 17 November 2019.
  32. Web site: Christine Dwyer Hickey wins the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for The Narrow Land . Walter Scott Prize . 12 June 2020 . 12 June 2020.
  33. Web site: Fictional portrait of Jo and Edward Hopper wins Walter Scott prize . The Guardian . Alison Flood . 12 June 2020 . 12 June 2020.
  34. News: Christine Dwyer Hickey and Sinead Gleeson win first Dalkey Literary Awards. . 20 June 2020. 22 June 2020.

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