I’m Hilary Fannin

Writer

HILARY FANNIN is an award-winning playwright and newspaper columnist. Born in Dublin, where she still lives, she was writer in association at the Abbey Theatre in its centenary year. Her plays, including Mackerel Sky, Doldrum Bay, Famished Castle and an adaptation of Racine’s Phaedra, have been performed in Ireland, London, Europe and North America. She writes a weekly column for the Irish Times and was awarded Irish Columnist of the Year in 2019. Her memoir, Hopscotch, was published to critical acclaim in 2015. Her first novel The Weight of Love won the John McGahern Award for debut Irish fiction.
Currently under commission to Rough Magic Theatre Company she is also the 2022 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.