Emilie Pine

This stage play is the compelling true story of Susan Connolly's 11 years as a child in Dublin's notorious Goldenbridge Industrial School. Told from the viewpoint of a child I Am Edel is a story of courage, friendship and compassion. Although set in a tragic environment it is often comic in telling the ingenuity of a child survivor.

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller Notes to SelfDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won't make space for you, to be with yourself?Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.'Emilie Pine is one of the most important new voices in Irish Literature. Everything she writes is imbued with wisdom' David Park'Emilie Pine's debut novel is ambitious, poignant and playful, with a feminist nod to Joyce . . . it is as surprising and playful as it is ambitious and relevant' Irish Independent'This is an exciting, warm and engaging debut that signals, one hopes, even greater things to come' The Business PostWINNER OF THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD

En dag, en stad, två kvinnor: Ruth och Pen. Ingen känner den andra men båda har hjärtan att lätta och viktiga beslut att fatta.Ruth arbetar som terapeut och genomgår en kris i sitt äktenskap. Hon har varit gift länge med Aidan som nu är på konferens i London, men kommer han tillbaka eller har han lämnat henne? Aidan och Ruth är ofrivilligt barnlösa och har under flera år genomgått IVF-behandlingar. De har uthärdat bakslag i form av positiva graviditetstest och missfall och till slut har Ruth tagit beslutet att hon inte vill fortsätta behandlingarna medan Aidan är fast besluten att fortsätta.Pen är sjutton år och har en diagnos inom det autistiska spektrumet. Pen är högkänslig, har tidigare haft problem med mobbning, hon tänker vissa tankar på latin och har mängder av knep och metoder för att klara av sin vardag. Hennes största stöd är vännen Alice, som hon är hemligt förälskad i - en förälskelse som Pen bestämt sig för att samla mod för att agera på.”Ruth & Pen” är en roman om tvåsamhet, barnlöshet och psykisk ohälsa men också om försoning och om att hitta sin plats i världen.

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won't make space for you, to be with yourself?Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.RUTH & PEN is the fictional debut from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.

Lysende beretning om kvindeliv i det 21. århundrede. Emilie Pine er en af de irske forfattere, der puster nyt liv liv i essay-genren. I denne prisbelønnede debut skriver Emilie Pine om de oplevelser, der har formet hendes liv. Hun skriver med radikal ærlighed om om sorgen ved barnløshed, om at tage sig af sin alkoholiserede far, om tabuerne omkring kvindekroppen og den kvindelig smerte, om ufrivillig sex og om at gøre skade på sig selv. Noter til mig selv er en stærkt bevægende, modig, indsigtsfuld og samtidig forunderligt opmuntrende udforskning af, hvordan det føles at være i verden. En uforglemmelig bog, som alle kvinder vil genkende sig selv i, og alle mænd bør læse for bedre at forstå dem. Emilie Pine (f. 1977) er kritiker og lektor i moderne drama på University College i Dublin. Noter til mig selv er hendes skønlitterære debut. Bogen udkom oprindeligt på det lille indie-forlag Tramp Press i 2018, men blev på få uger en ægte word of mouth-succes. Den blev siden en bestseller, vandt syv priser og blev kåret både til årets debut og årets bedste bog. Pressen skrev: ”Læs ikke denne bog offentligt: Den får dig til at græde.” - Anne Enright “Mageløs, modig, fuldkommen brillant.” - Financial Times “En bog du har lyst til at forære til alle.” - Irish Times

Intiimit ja omakohtaiset kirjoitukset käsittelevät naiseutta ja perhettä paljastaen ihmisen häpeän ja haurauden. Siskokset löytävät isänsä korfulaisesta sairaalasta vailla hoitoa ja ihmisarvoa. Itsepäinen isä ei edes halua hoitoa, saati palata kotiin Irlantiin, mutta ei häntä voi hylätä sairaalasänkyynkään. Isän alkoholismi on yksi Emilie Pinen kirjan kipeistä aiheista - niistä joista on vaikea puhua. Pine käsittelee mieltä ravistelevia kysymyksiä kirjoittaessaan vanhempiensa erosta, rajuista teinivuosistaan, -lapsettomuudestaan sekä kokemastaan seksuaalisesta väkivallasta. Lopulta hän kirjoittaa myös lohdusta.Tästä on vaikea puhua on havahduttava kirja kaikille, jotka miettivät, ovatko he tarpeeksi naisellisia tai miehekkäitä, tarpeeksi haluttavia tai älykkäitä, tarpeeksi kilttejä tai rohkeita. Emilie Pine on nykydraaman apulaisprofessori University College Dublinissa. Hän on julkaissut niin tieteellisiä kuin kaunokirjallisiakin teoksia. Tästä on vaikea puhua valittiin Irlannissa vuoden kirjaksi 2018, ja se on herättänyt valtavasti huomiota ympäri maailmaa.

What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform, and purchase the theatricalization of memory? The Memory Marketplace shows this transaction to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances, the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of this exchange—subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified—provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform, and purchase the theatricalization of memory? The Memory Marketplace shows this transaction to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances, the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of this exchange—subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified—provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

“Jag är rädd för att vara kvinnan som stör. Och för att inte störa tillräckligt. Jag är rädd. Men jag gör det ändå.”I denna självlysande debut skriver Emilie Pine om de händelser som har format hennes liv. Hon skriver med radikal uppriktighet om infertilitetens outsägliga sorg, om att ta hand om en alkoholiserad förälder, om tabun kring den kvinnliga kroppen och den kvinnliga smärtan, om ofrivilligt sex och våld mot det egna jaget. Förkrossande, gripande och insiktsfull – och trots det fylld av glädje – är "Allt jag inte kan säga" en oförglömlig utforskning av hur det känns att leva i världen.

The extraordinary #1 bestseller - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon 'Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry' Anne Enright 'Every line pulses with the pain and joy and complexity of an extraordinary life' Mark O'Connell 'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.' In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise - and joyful against the odds - Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.

`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. Tackling subjects like addiction, fertility, feminism and sexual violence, and where these subjects intersect with legislation, these beautifully written essays are at once fascinating and funny, intimate and searingly honest. Honest, raw, brave and new, Notes to Self breaks new ground in the field of personal essays.