The Inheritance of Guilt

Derek Hand in conversation with Christine Dwyer Hickey about the Creative Process, the writing life and various influences that have found a way into her work, and of course her latest book, The Narrow Land.

"I loved this book. Christine Dwyer Hickey writes such beautifully poised prose. Flawed lives played out in a postcard perfect setting." Graham Norton

About Christine Dwyer Hickey

Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist and short story writer. She has published eight novels, one short story collection and a full-length play. Her novel “The Cold Eye of Heaven” won the Kerry Group Novel of the Year, 2012. Her latest novel “The Narrow Land” is published by Atlantic UK and was shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year 2019. It won the 2020 Sir Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Her novel ”Tatty” is the UNESCO “Dublin One City One Book” for 2020.Her work has been widely translated. Christine is an elected member of Aosdána.

About Derek Hand

Dr Derek Hand is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of English in Dublin City University. The Liffey Press published his book ‘John Banville: Exploring Fictions’  in 2002. He edited a special edition of the ‘Irish University Review’ on John Banville in 2006. He was awarded an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Research Fellowship for 2008-2009. His ‘A History of the Irish Novel: 1665 to the present’ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011 and is now available in paperback.

Derek is interested in Irish writing in general and has published articles on W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Colum McCann, Molly Keane, Benedict Kiely, Mary Lavin, William Trevor and on contemporary Irish fiction. He has lectured on Irish writing in the USA, Portugal, Sweden, Singapore, Brazil, Italy, Malaysia, Sweden and France. He is now working on a critical study of recent Irish fiction entitled  ‘The Celtic Tiger Irish Novel 1994-2010: modernity and mediocrity’.

He is the co-editor with Eamon Maher of a collection of essays on John McGahern entitled  ‘Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy’, published by Cork University Press. 

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