Emilie Pine

Emilie Pine (born 1978) is a writer and lecturer in modern drama at University College Dublin (UCD). Notes to Self is her debut collection of personal essays (often considered a form of memoir) that brings together six deeply personal pieces on her life, including trauma, family, infertility, and the female body. It was originally published in 2018 and won multiple awards including Irish Book of the Year. Her first novel, Ruth and Pen, followed later in 2022.

Biography Pine was born in 1978. She lived in Dublin before her family moved to London.

She returned to Ireland to complete her education at Trinity College, Dublin. While teaching at UCD, she has made books on stories and difficulties in Ireland and how people remember these events.

Up to 2019, Pine had made books on true educational stories, she then made the book, Notes to self. 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 An Post Irish Book Awards book of the year prize.

Before 2022, Pine had a year's holiday from teaching to create her book Ruth & Pen, a story of two women over one day in the same way James Joyce's Ulysses was set over one day. told of her experiences with peri-menopause hormone replacement therapy, stress incontinence and the poor standards of reproductive healthcare for women in Ireland.

Works

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