Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne ([ˈeːlʲiːʃ nʲiː ˈɣɪvʲnʲə]; born 22 February 1954), also known as Eilis Almquist and Elizabeth O'Hara, is an Irish novelist and short story writer who writes both in Irish and English. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and is a recipient of the Irish PEN Award.

Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin in 1954. She attended University College Dublin (UCD), where she studied Pure English, then Folklore. She was awarded the UCD Entrance scholarship for English, and two post graduate scholarships in Folklore. In 1978-9 she studied at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1982 was awarded a PhD from the National University of Ireland (NUI). She has worked in the Department of Irish Folklore in UCD, and for many years as a curator in the National Library of Ireland. Also a teacher of Creative Writing, she has been Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin and is currently Writer Fellow at UCD. She is a member of Aosdána, an ambassador for the Irish Writers' Centre, and President of the Folklore of Ireland Society (An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann).

Ní Dhuibhne was married to the Swedish folklorist Bo Almqvist (died 2013) and has two children: Ragnar and Olaf.

Further information on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's work may be found in Rebecca Pelan, ed, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: Perspectives. Galway, Arlen House, 2009.

• Listowel Poetry Award
• Oireachtas Awards for a play and novels
• Stewart Parker Award for a Play
• Butler Prose Award (American Association of Irish Studies)
• Bisto Merit Awards for The Hiring Fair and Hurlamaboc, and Bisto Book of the Year Award for Blaeberry Sunday
• 1986 Arts Council Bursaries
• 1996 Arts Council Bursaries
• 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for The Dancers Dancing
• 2014 Hennessy Literature Award
• 2015 Irish PEN Award

Novels in English

• The Bray House (1990)
• Singles (1994)
• The Dancers Dancing (1999)
• Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow (2007)
• Sister Caravaggio (2014)

Novels in Irish

• Dúnmharú sa Daingean (2001)
• Cailíní Beaga Ghleann na mBláth (2003)
• Hurlamaboc (2005)
• Dún an Airgid (2008)
• Dordán (2011)
• Aisling Nó Iníon A (2015)

Collections

• Blood and Water (1988)
• Eating Women Is Not Recommended (1991)
• The Inland Ice (1997)
• The Pale Gold of Alaska (2000)
• Midwife to the Fairies (2003)
• The Shelter of Neighbours (2012)

Children's Books

• The Uncommon Cormorant (1990)
• Hugo and the Sunshine Girl (1991)
• The Hiring Fair (1992)
• Blaeberry Sunday (1993)
• Penny Farthing Sally (1996)
• The Sparkling Rain (2004)
• Snobs, Dogs and Scobies (2011)

Plays

• Dún na mBan Trí Thine
  Produced by Amharclann de hÍde and first performed at the Peacock, Dublin, 1995;
• Milseog an tSamhraidh
  Produced by Amharclann de hÍde and first performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, in 1996;
• The Nettle Shirts
  Produced by the Abbey and performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in 1998.

Memoirs

• Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss (2018)