Emilie Pine

Emilie Pine
Born1978 (age 46–47)
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation(s)University teacher and author
Notable workNotes to Self

Emilie Pine (born 1978) is a writer and lecturer in modern drama at University College Dublin (UCD).[1][2] Her story, Notes to self, shows events in her private life.[3]

Biography

Pine was born in 1978.[4] She lived in Dublin before her family moved to London.[5]

She returned to Ireland to complete her education at Trinity College, Dublin.[6] While teaching at UCD, she has made books on stories and difficulties in Ireland and how people remember these events.[7]

Up to 2019, Pine had made books on true educational stories, she then made the book, Notes to self.[2] Notes to Self tells her private stories about not having children, problem eating, problem drinking, becoming unmarried, forced sex, losing babies, being poor, body hair and thinking bad about these acts.[8] Josefin Holmström said in Svenska Dagbladet that Pine's book showed a new way of talking about private female things.[9] The book won the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards book of the year prize.[10][11]

Before 2022, Pine had a year's holiday from teaching to create her book Ruth & Pen, a story of two women over one day in the same way James Joyce's Ulysses was set over one day.[2]

Works

  • Emilie Pine (2005). "Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s" (en-IE).
  • Emilie Pine (2011). The politics of Irish memory : performing remembrance in contemporary Irish culture. ISBN 9780230247413. OCLC 1253425216.
  • Emilie Pine (2016). The body in pain in Irish literature and culture. ISBN 9780230247413. OCLC 1966253334.
  • Emilie Pine (2017). Moving memory : the dynamics of the past in Irish. ISBN 9781474424363. OCLC 990290738.
  • Emilie Pine (2019). Notes to self : essays. ISBN 9781999700843. OCLC 1023047720.
  • Emilie Pine (2020). The memory marketplace : witnessing pain in contemporary Irish and international theatre. ISBN 9780253049506. OCLC 1245333441.
  • Emilie Pine (2022). Ruth & Pen. ISBN 9780241573297. OCLC 1295787090.

References

  1. ^ "Emilie Pine: The novelist putting autism centre stage". BBC News. 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  2. ^ a b c "Emilie Pine: 'I miss the children I didn't have. Some people get that and some don't'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  3. ^ Barter, Pavel. "Emilie Pine: How I stopped hiding from myself". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  4. ^ VIAF 160849027
  5. ^ "Emilie Pine: I got teenage kicks in London but was happiest at Trinity | Ireland | The Sunday Times". The Times. 2019-09-30. Archived from the original on 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  6. ^ "Emilie Pine - Bio". people.ucd.ie. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  7. ^ "Emilie Pine - Research Interests". people.ucd.ie. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  8. ^ Josefsson, Erika (2019-08-30). "Rak uppriktighet gav Emilie Pine ny makt" [Straightforward honesty gave Emilie Pine new power]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  9. ^ Gregorio, Josefin de (2019-06-04). "Laddad bön om att prata om det som oftast förtigs". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  10. ^ "Emilie Pine wins Irish Book of the Year prize". RTÉ.ie. 2019-01-29.
  11. ^ "An Post Irish Book of the Year 2018 winner revealed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-11-13.