Christine Dwyer Hickey

Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist, playwright and short story writer, born in 1958 in Dublin.  She has published ten novels, one collection of short stories and a full-length play.

Tatty was published by New Island Books (2004) and by Vintage UK (2005). It was shortlisted for Irish Novel of The Year 2005, listed as one of the 50 Irish Novels of the Decade at the Irish Book Awards in 2010. It was also nominated for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Fiction Prize). 

Her other Dublin works include the Dublin Trilogy, the story of a Dublin family from 1918-1960 (New Island 2006); the short story collection The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin Stories ( 2013) and The Cold Eye of Heaven ( 2011) which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2012.

Last Train from Liguria (2009) set in Italy during Mussolini’s Fascist regime was nominated for the Prix L’Européen de Littérature. Her latest novel The Narrow Land (2019) is set on Cape Cod in 1950 and examines the turbulent marriage of American artists Edward and Jo Hopper. 

Christine’s stories have been published in anthologies and magazines worldwide and have won several awards the most recent being for her story Back to Bones at the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year Award in 2017. Her play Snow Angels premiered at the Project Arts Theatre in 2014.  

Her work has been widely translated into European and Arabic languages and she is an elected member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of arts.

Her novel Tatty was selected as the One Dublin One Book title in 2020. The Cold Eye of Heaven was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2013, and Our London Lives was nominated in 2026.