Background
Gilligan"s father is an accountant and her mother a speech therapist.
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Somewhere In Between by Ruth Gilligan (2008-07-24)
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Ruth Gilligan
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She studied acting at the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School in Dublin from the age of six, and later secured theatre, television commercial and short film roles. At second level, Gilligan attended Saint Andrew"s College, Booterstown, and while there, she played Laura Halpin in the Irish soap opera Fair City, and wrote her first novel, Forget as a Transition Year secondary school project
Career
Her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family hail from Blackrock. After reading and editing by successful novelist Patricia Scanlan, and extensive rewriting, the novel was published in 2006 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, reaching number 1 on the Irish Bestsellers" List, making her the youngest person in Ireland ever to have done southern While in second year there she published her second novel,, which was also translated into German.
In January 2009, Gilligan was announced as the youngest ever recipient of an O"Reilly Foundation Scholarship to pursue advanced studies in English literature.
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 television interview. From 2009-2010 she attended Yale University, earning an Master of Arts in English Literature.
From 2010-2011 she was enrolled on the Creative Writing Master of Arts at the University of East Anglia. In 2014 she earned her Doctor of Philosophy 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 in July 2016.
Gilligan is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.
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