Doireann Ní Ghríofa: A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. Her most recent prose work is A Ghost in the Throat, which has been sold in twenty languages. A Ghost in the Throat was a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Observer, The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail, NPR, and The New York Times. It won Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, Foyles Nonfiction Book of the Year, the James Tait Black Prize for Biography, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, among other accolades. Ní Ghríofa is also the author of a number of acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Ostana Prize, a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

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