Christine Dwyer Hickey





Christine Dwyer Hickey

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born
Dublin, Ireland

gender
female


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Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist and short-story writer. Her novel Tatty was short-listed for Irish Book of the Year in 2005 and was also long-listed for The Orange Prize. Her novels, The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker were re-issued in 2006 as The Dublin Trilogy three novels which span the story of a Dublin family from 1913 to 1956.
Twice winner of the Listowel Writers Week short story competition, she was also a prize winner in the Observer/Penguin short-story competition. Her latest novel, Last Train from Liguria, is set in 1930’s Fascist Italy and Dublin in the 1990’s and will be published in June 2009.


Average rating: 3.52 · 250 ratings · 63 reviews · 6 distinct works
Last Train From Liguria
3.46 of 5 stars 346 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Tatty
3.62 of 5 stars 362 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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The Cold Eye of Heaven
3.67 of 5 stars 367 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Dancer
2.86 of 5 stars 286 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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The Gambler
5.0 of 5 stars 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Gatemaker
5.0 of 5 stars 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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