Christine Dwyer Hickey

Christine Dwyer Hickey
Born Dwyer
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. 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".[1]

Early life

Christine Dwyer Hickey was born in Dublin in 1960. She is an only girl with four siblings. After her parents' marriage broke up, her father became the chief carer and family life became somewhat chaotic.[2] When she was ten years old, she went to Mount Sackville Boarding school and has described her years there as a time of stability and creativity.[3] Her childhood has informed some of her work particularly Tatty, a story of the breakup of a marriage told from the child’s point of view.[4] 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".[4]

As a child she spent a lot of time with her father and often went to the races with him.[5] She used this experience in her first literary success in 1991 with the 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 1995-2000 as The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker by Marino Books and was republished by New Island in 2006-07.[6] The trilogy covered the story of a Dublin family between the years 1913-1958.

After the trilogy came Tatty in 2004. Last Train from Liguria, set in Italy during the fascist era and in Dublin in the 1990s was published in 2009. 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 [7] and it was also nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2013 [8] and shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards 2011 for novel of the year.[9]

Her novels have been nominated for the Orange Prize, The Irish Book of the Year, 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, the most recent being the Writing.ie Short Story Award for her story Back to Bones which was also longlisted for The EFG Sunday Times Short Story Competition 2017.[11]

The Lives of Women was published in 2015 and in the US in 2018.

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

  • The Dancer (1995)
  • The Gambler (1996)
  • The Gatemaker (2000)
  • Tatty (2004), (2006)[4][17]
  • The Dublin Trilogy (2006-2007)
  • Last Train from Liguria (2009)
  • The Cold Eye of Heaven (2011)[18][19][20][21][22]
  • The Lives of Women (2015)[23][24][25]
  • The Narrow Land (due 2019)

Short Fiction

  • The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin Stories (2013)

Drama

  • Snowangels (2015)

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Book Review - Menaced by Mussolini". thejc.com. The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Interviews - Careless by Nature". writing.ie.
  3. ↑ https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/books/book-reviewthe-lives-of-women-325836.html irish examiner
  4. 1 2 3 "Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey - Independent.ie". Independent.ie. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Entertainment - Books - Christine's Italian job". independent.ie.
  6. ↑ "The Gatemaker - New Island Books". New Island Books. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  7. ↑ https://writersweek.ie/3135 Writers Week
  8. ↑ http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/nominees/cold-eye-of-heaven/ Dublin Literary Award
  9. ↑ http://www.irishpublishingnews.com/2011/10/21/irish-book-awards-shortlists-announced/#.W4AkSc5KjIU Irish Publishing News
  10. ↑ http://www.literatureireland.com/author-database/author-holder/show/171 Literature Ireland, Author database
  11. 1 2 "Irish Book Awards". Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  12. ↑ http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Literature/Dwyer-Hickey.aspx Aosdana
  13. ↑ "Christine Dwyer Hickey: my influences, from Mrs Dalloway to Janice Galloway". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "A fistful of fine family stories". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "John Montague on Christine Dwyer Hickey: 'a rich and varied oeuvre'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  16. ↑ "In praise of Christine Dwyer Hickey, by John Montague". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  17. ↑ "Book - Tatty - Christine Dwyer Hickey". Worcester News. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  18. ↑ Davies, Stevie (18 November 2011). "The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey – review". the Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  19. ↑ "The Cold Eye of Heaven, By Christine Dwyer Hickey". The Independent. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  20. ↑ "Reasons to be grumpy". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  21. ↑ "Book Review: The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey". www.nwreview.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  22. ↑ O'Loughlin., Writing.ie. Editor Vanessa (16 September 2012). "The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christina Dwyer-Hickey". Writing.ie. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  23. ↑ "The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey book review: Sorry then,". The Independent. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  24. ↑ "The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey is the new Irish Times Book Club pick". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  25. ↑ "The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey, book review: A". The Independent. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  26. ↑ "Literature Ireland | Christine Dwyer Hickey". www.literatureireland.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  27. ↑ "Four Irish on £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award longlist". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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