Emilie Pine

Emilie Pine (born 1977) is an Irish writer and academic. She teaches modern drama at University College Dublin (UCD).  Her book, Notes to self, is six essays about events in her private life.

 Biography 
Pine was born in 1977. She lived in Dublin before she moved with her family to London. 

She returned Ireland to finish her education at Trinity College.  While teaching at UCD, she has written books about difficulties in Ireland and how people remember those events.

Up to 2019, Pine had been writing books on true educational stories. She wrote the book, Notes to self, about her private stories.  The book is a collection of essays about her own life. The subjects include infertility and miscarriages, eating problems, alcoholism, divorce, forced sex, being poor and body hair.  Josefin Holmström said in Svenska Dagbladet that Pine's book showed a new way of talking about private female things.  The book won the 2018 Irish Book of the Year prize from An Post .  

Before 2022, Pine stopped teaching for a year to write her book  Ruth & Pen. It is a fictional story about two women over one day. The story is written in the same way Joyce 's Ulysses book was written about events that happened in one day.

 Works 

 Emilie Pine (2005). "Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s" (en-IE).







 References 

 Other websites 

 University College Dublin official website

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Category:Irish novelists
Category:People from County Dublin
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