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Sophia Hillan
Born
Sophia Hillan

c. 1950
Belfast

Sophia Hillan (c. 1950), is a writer, critic and academic from Northern Ireland.

Life

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From the Falls Road, Belfast, Sophia Hillan was born c 1950 and attended St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls. Hillan graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Queen's University Belfast, followed by a doctorate.

Hillan studied under Seamus Heaney and later worked with him when she taught in Carysfort College of Education in Dublin. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in 1980 and was awarded prizes by both Sam Hanna Bell and David Marcus.

Hillan moved back to Northern Ireland in 1983. She then began a more academic career and put her fiction writing on hold for several years. Hillan was the associate director of the Institute of Irish Studies in Queen's University, Belfast from 1993 to 2003. She was director of the International Summer School in Irish Studies.

Hillan has won awards for her short stories and they have been featured on BBC. She has written fiction and edited the fiction of others as well as written about them, particularly Michael McLaverty. She also writes as Sophia Hillan King.

She married and had two children, Judith and John King.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Bibliography

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  • In Quiet Places - The Uncollected Stories, Letters and Critical Prose of Micheal McLaverty, (1989)
  • The silken twine: a study of the works of Michael McLaverty, (1992)
  • Collected short stories: Michael McLaverty, (2002)
  • May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen’s Nieces in Ireland, (2011)
  • The Friday Tree, (2014)
  • The Way We Danced, (2016)
  • The Cocktail Hour, (2018)

References and sources

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  1. ^ Ireland, Karen (27 October 2016). "A war-time love story of a Belfast woman and a German soldier inspired my new book". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Sophia Hillan – Sean Hillen". Sean Hillen. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland". CEH. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  4. ^ "contributed by Michael Crowley (April 1997)". Supplementary Bibliography of Michael McLaverty. 4 November 1940. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  5. ^ Colletta, L.; O'Connor, M. (2006). Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien. Irish Studies in Literature and Culture. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-299-21633-7. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  6. ^ "The William Carleton Summer School" (PDF).
  7. ^ Hillan, Sophia (25 September 2011). "The Story Jane Austen wouldn't dare attempt". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Irish writers' best of 2018 – John Boyne, Wendy Erskine, Colm Tóibín and more share top picks". Independent.ie. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  9. ^ "English teachers to look north". The Irish Times. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  10. ^ Brannigan, J. (2014). Archipelagic Modernism. Edinburgh University Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-7486-9914-8. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  11. ^ Sweeney, Joanne (23 November 2016). "Sophia Hillan's new love story from Belfast to Berlin". The Irish News. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  12. ^ "From First Arts English at Queen's in 1968 to a first short story collection today". The Irish Times. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  13. ^ "The Cocktail Hour Sophie Hillan". QUB. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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