Nuala O\' Faolain

Nuala O' Faolain was born in 1942 with Dublin. It is the junior by a family of nine children, born from a father journalist and an alcoholic mother. During a few years, it combines odd jobs and university where it follows studies of letters to Dublin and Oxford and where it obtains a diploma of medieval literature. It begins on television, then becomes journalist and chroniqueuse with the Irish Times . In the Seventies, she lives with London and militates for feminism and of the political break between the Ireland and the Great Britain.

Become a journalist recognized, Nuala O' Faloain writes some novels without success and dark in alcoholism, before being its first great success: One already saw some share . This novel made of it a writer with whole share. Today still its accounts are of biographical or autobiographical inspiration. It reveals there the major change as well political, as religious, or social of its country, and the break enters the Great Britain and the Ireland.

She speaks with brilliance about the history about a whole generation: that of the Irish of the baby-boom, born in Ireland living at the 19th century, and fundamentally near to developed and foreign England, only possible horizon with the ambitious one.

Works

The Story off Chicago May , Riverhead Books, 2005. (ISBN 1-57322-320-4)
Almost There: The Onward Journey off has Dublin Woman , Riverhead Books, 2003. (ISBN 1-57322-374-3)
My Dream off You , Riverhead Books, 2001. (has Novell, ISBN 1-57322-177-5)
Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir off has Dublin Woman , New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. (ISBN 0-8050-5663-7)

French titles:

History of Chicago May , ED. Sabine Wespieser, 2006
I am there almost , ED. Sabine Wespieser, 2005
Dreams , ED. Did Sabine Wespieser, 2003
One already see some share? , ED. Sabine Wespieser, 2002

Price

foreign Femina Price in 2006

External bonds

English biography

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