Sophia Hillan Explained

Sophia Hillan
Birth Name:Sophia Hillan
Birth Date:c. 1950
Birth Place:Belfast

Sophia Hillan (c. 1950), is a writer, critic and academic from Northern Ireland.

Life

From the Falls Road, Belfast, Sophia Hillan was born c 1950 and attended St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls. Hillan graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Queen's University Belfast, followed by a doctorate.

Hillan studied under Seamus Heaney and later worked with him when she taught in Carysfort College of Education in Dublin. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in 1980 and was awarded prizes by both Sam Hanna Bell and David Marcus.

Hillan moved back to Northern Ireland in 1983. She then began a more academic career and put her fiction writing on hold for several years. Hillan was the associate director of the Institute of Irish Studies in Queen's University, Belfast from 1993 to 2003. She was director of the International Summer School in Irish Studies.

Hillan has won awards for her short stories and they have been featured on BBC. She has written fiction and edited the fiction of others as well as written about them, particularly Michael McLaverty. She also writes as Sophia Hillan King.

She married and had two children, Judith and John King.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ireland . Karen . A war-time love story of a Belfast woman and a German soldier inspired my new book . BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . 2016-10-27 . 2019-12-08.
  2. Web site: Sophia Hillan – Sean Hillen . Sean Hillen . 2019-11-19 . 2019-12-08.
  3. Web site: Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland . CEH . 2015-01-20 . 2019-12-08.
  4. Web site: contributed by Michael Crowley (April 1997) . Supplementary Bibliography of Michael McLaverty . 1940-11-04 . 2019-12-08.
  5. Book: Colletta . L. . O'Connor . M. . Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien . University of Wisconsin Press . Irish Studies in Literature and Culture . 2006 . 978-0-299-21633-7 . 2019-12-08 . 166.
  6. Web site: The William Carleton Summer School.
  7. Web site: Hillan . Sophia . The Story Jane Austen wouldn't dare attempt . Express.co.uk . 2011-09-25 . 2019-12-08.
  8. Web site: Irish writers' best of 2018 – John Boyne, Wendy Erskine, Colm Tóibín and more share top picks . Independent.ie . 2018-12-22 . 2019-12-08.
  9. Web site: English teachers to look north . The Irish Times . 2019-11-08 . 2019-12-08.
  10. Book: Brannigan, J. . Archipelagic Modernism . Edinburgh University Press . 2014 . 978-0-7486-9914-8 . 2019-12-08 . 269.
  11. Web site: Sweeney . Joanne . Sophia Hillan's new love story from Belfast to Berlin . The Irish News . 2016-11-23 . 2019-12-08.
  12. Web site: From First Arts English at Queen's in 1968 to a first short story collection today . The Irish Times . 2013-03-21 . 2019-12-08.
  13. Web site: The Cocktail Hour Sophie Hillan . QUB . 2018-12-06 . 2019-12-08.

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