Bio
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the current Laureate for Irish Fiction, was born in Dublin She was awarded a PhD in Irish Folklore from University College Dublin in 1982, and is best known as a writer of fiction.
Author of novels, short stories, memoir and drama, her most recent books are Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir (shortlisted for the Michel Déon Award 2020) and Little Red and Other Stories (Blackstaff 2020), Selected Stories (Blackstaff 2023), Milseog an tSamhraidh (Clo Iar Chonnacht 2023), and Look! It’s a Woman Writer! (Arlen House, 2021).
She has been the recipient of many literary awards. In autumn 2020, she held the Burns Scholarship at Boston College. She is a member of Aosdána, and president of the Folklore of Ireland Society.
Her son Ragmar Almquist, an Irish diplomat, and is now Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ireland to Hungary.
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