Emilie Pine Explained

Emilie Pine
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Occupation:University teacher and author
Notable Works:Notes to Self

Emilie Pine (born 1978) is a writer and lecturer in modern drama at University College Dublin (UCD).[1] [2] Her story, Notes to self, shows events in her private life.[3]

Biography

Pine was born in 1978. She lived in Dublin before her family moved to London.[4]

She returned to Ireland to complete her education at Trinity College, Dublin.[5] While teaching at UCD, she has made books on stories and difficulties in Ireland and how people remember these events.[6]

Up to 2019, Pine had made books on true educational stories, she then made the book, Notes to self. Notes to Self tells her private stories about not having children, problem eating, problem drinking, becoming unmarried, forced sex, losing babies, being poor, body hair and thinking bad about these acts.[7] Josefin Holmström said in Svenska Dagbladet that Pine's book showed a new way of talking about private female things.[8] The book won the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards book of the year prize.[9] [10]

Before 2022, Pine had a year's holiday from teaching to create her book Ruth & Pen, a story of two women over one day in the same way James Joyce's Ulysses was set over one day.

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Notes and References

  1. News: 2022-05-04 . Emilie Pine: The novelist putting autism centre stage . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-11-13.
  2. News: Emilie Pine: 'I miss the children I didn't have. Some people get that and some don't' . subscription . 2022-11-13 . . en.
  3. News: Barter . Pavel . Emilie Pine: How I stopped hiding from myself . . en . 2022-11-13 . 0140-0460.
  4. Web site: 2019-09-30 . Emilie Pine: I got teenage kicks in London but was happiest at Trinity Ireland The Sunday Times . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190930151835/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/emilie-pine-i-got-teenage-kicks-in-london-but-was-happiest-at-trinity-mtp0wqc5z . 2019-09-30 . 2022-11-13 .
  5. Web site: Emilie Pine - Bio . 2022-11-13 . people.ucd.ie.
  6. Web site: Emilie Pine - Research Interests . 2022-11-13 . people.ucd.ie.
  7. News: Josefsson . Erika . 2019-08-30 . Rak uppriktighet gav Emilie Pine ny makt . sv . Straightforward honesty gave Emilie Pine new power . Svenska Dagbladet . 2022-11-13 . 1101-2412.
  8. News: Gregorio . Josefin de . 2019-06-04 . Laddad bön om att prata om det som oftast förtigs . sv . Svenska Dagbladet . 2022-11-13 . 1101-2412.
  9. Web site: 2019-01-29 . Emilie Pine wins Irish Book of the Year prize . . en.
  10. News: An Post Irish Book of the Year 2018 winner revealed . subscription . 2022-11-13 . . en.