Interviewing Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Authors

  • Munira H Mutran University of São Paulo
  • Patricia Aquino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v18i0.3527

Abstract

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a novelist, playwright, and a storyteller. She graduated in English and Folklore at University College Dublin (UCD) and did her PhD at National University of Ireland. She has taught Folklore and Creative Writing at UCD. Eilis has won several awards, among them the Irish Pen Award in 2015 for the outstanding contribution of her work to Irish literature. She has published extensively both fiction and academic criticism and she is a member of the Irish Association of Artists (Aosdána). Her literary work comprises of over twenty-five books.


Keywords: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne; fiction; creative writing; Irish language.

Author Biographies

  • Munira H Mutran, University of São Paulo

    Munira Hamud Mutran is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She specializes in Irish Literature and Comparative Studies. She holds an MA, a PhD and a post-doctoral thesis [Livre Docência] at the
    University of São Paulo and an Honorary Degree in Letters at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is co-editor of The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies (since
    1996) and of Lecture, a series of books with lectures given at the W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies at USP. She has published articles and chapters in books on Irish fiction
    and drama, two collections of Irish short stories translated into Portuguese, Joyce no Brasil (1997), Sean O’Faolains Letters to Brazil (2005), Álbum de Retratos [A Portrait
    Album, 2002] and A Batalha das Estéticas [Aesthetic Movements in Battle, 2005].

  • Patricia Aquino

    Patricia de Aquino is a PhD candidate at the University of Sao Paulo and the recipient of FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) research grant. She has been interested in aspects of Irish identity in Irish literature and in the communities of the diaspora. In her M.A. dissertation she studied the formation of national and individual identity in Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People and The Sailor in the Wardrobe. She was also awarded a grant by SILAS (Society for Irish Latin American Studies) for her research on nationalism in William Bulfin’s epistolary
    discourse in 2009.

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Published

2016-11-17

Issue

Vol. 18 (2016): ABEI Journal 18

Section

Interviews

How to Cite

Mutran, M. H., & Aquino, P. (2016). Interviewing Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. ABEI Journal, 18, 147-150. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v18i0.3527