Ruth Gilligan
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| Ruth Gilligan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1988 (age 35–36) Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Novelist (also Actress) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Period | 2006 - present |
| Genre | Romance, sentimental, chick lit |
Ruth Gilligan is an Irish writer and actress, born in Dublin, Ireland.[citation needed]
Life
Gilligan's father is an accountant and her mother a speech therapist. Her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family hail from Blackrock.[citation needed]
Career
She studied acting at the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School in Dublin from the age of six, and later secured theatre, TV commercial and short film roles.[citation needed]
At second level, Gilligan attended St. Andrew's College, Booterstown, and while there, she played Laura Halpin in the Irish soap opera Fair City, and wrote her first novel, Forget[1][2][3] as a Transition Year secondary school project.[4][5] After reading and editing by successful novelist Patricia Scanlan, and extensive rewriting, the novel was published in 2006 in the UK and Ireland, reaching number 1 on the Irish Bestsellers' List,[6] making her the youngest person in Ireland ever to have done so.
Achieving eight Higher-Level A1 grades in her Leaving Certificate examinations, Gilligan continued her studies at Cambridge University achieving a double First Class Honours degree in English Literature from Gonville and Caius College. While in second year there she published her second novel, Somewhere in Between, which was also translated into German.[citation needed]
In January 2009, Gilligan was announced as the youngest ever recipient of an O'Reilly Foundation Scholarship to pursue advanced studies in English literature.[7]
Her third book was launched in Blackrock near Dublin in August 2009, following which she discussed her work, scholarship, lifestyle and the English Olympic fencing boyfriend Alex O'Connell to whom the book is dedicated, in a live TV interview.[8]
From 2009-2010 she attended Yale University, earning an MA in English Literature. From 2010-2011 she was enrolled on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia.[citation needed] In 2014 she earned her PhD in English from Exeter University.
Her fourth novel, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, is based around the history of Irish Jews and will be published by Atlantic Books in July 2016.
Gilligan is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.
Books
- Forget (Number 1 bestseller)[citation needed]
- Somewhere in Between[citation needed]
- Can You See Me?[citation needed]
-Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan (July 2016)
References, notes and sources
- Notes
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- Other sources
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- People educated at St. Andrew's College (Ireland)
- Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Yale University alumni
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Irish novelists
- Irish television actresses
- O'Reilly Foundation
- Date of birth missing (living people)
- Irish women novelists
